mkwebmanifest

Generate icons in different sizes and a web manifest, in order to link icons (and make a web application installable).

The web manifest will contain all properties that are required on some platforms (name, icons, start_url, display).

Usage

npx mkwebmanifest --icon app/assets/images/icon.svg --name myapp

or using all settings from a default configuration file location

cat > mkwebmanifest.config.json << EOF
{
  "name": "myapp",
  "icon": "app/assets/images/icon.svg"
}
EOF

npx mkwebmanifest

Or if installed

mkwebmanifest --icon app/assets/images/icon.svg --name myapp

It's recommended to provide an SVG or large PNG (e.g. 512x512) source icon.

Options and Configuration

Only the icon and name settings are required, either as option or configuration. icon is path of the input icon file, name is the name of the application.

If the --name option isn't given, the command assumes a configuration file at one of the default locations.

• config/mkwebmanifest.json
• mkwebmanifest.json
• mkwebmanifest.config.json
• config/mkwebmanifest.config.json

A configuration file might look like this:

{
  "icon": "app/assets/images/icon-oval.svg",
  "outdir": "app/assets/builds",
  "name": "MyApp. Make my data available on the web while maintaining full control",
  "short_name": "MyApp",
  "description": "MyApp is a tool that makes your current data available while maintaining full control over it"
}

A different configuration file can be set with --config.

Configuration

• icon (required) - input icon file
• name (required) - the app name
• outdir ("./public")
• short_name - short version of the name
• display ("browser") - controls if standard browser UI is used, see the standard for details.
• sizes (512, 192, 180, 168, 144, 96, 72, 48, 32, 16) - which icon sizes to generate from the input icon. The input should be larger than these, or vector based for best results. Use comma-delimited list of sizes (without spaces)
• description - description of the app
• webmanifest - provide further properties for the generated web manifest file (only available via configuration file)

Limitations

• The icon files with the various sizes are all written to a subdirectory in outdir. This subdirectory cannot be configure for now. It's always named 'icons'.

References

1 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest

Credit

Besides the dependencies declared in package.json, test fixtures contain the CheckBadge icon from https://heroicons.dev, used under an MIT license, and a version converted to PNG sized 96x96 px by svgexporter.