SVG Mixer

Library for generating and transforming SVG sprites in modern way.

Table of contents

• Quick example
• Installation
• Adapters
• Configuration
  • spriteType
  • spriteConfig
  • generateSymbolId
  • prettify
  • spriteClass
  • symbolClass
• API
• Extending

Quick example

const mixer = require('svg-mixer');

mixer('img/*.svg')
  .then(result => console.log(result.content));

// Write sprite content on disk
mixer(['img/**/*.svg', '!img/raw/**'])
  .then(result => result.write('sprite.svg'));

// 'Stack' sprite
mixer('img/**/*.svg', { spriteType: 'stack' })
  .then(result => result.write('sprite.svg'));

// Classic sprite with empty canvas and <defs> section with symbols
// Useful for inlining directly in HTML markup and refer to images via <use xlink:href="#symbol-id" />
mixer('img/**/*.svg', { spriteConfig: { usages: false } })
  .then(result => result.write('sprite.svg'));

Installation

npm install svg-mixer

Adapters

• PostCSS: postcss-svg-mixer.
• Gulp: gulp-svg-mixer.

Configuration

spriteType

Type: string Default: classic

Possible values:

• classic (default). Images placed on canvas one after the other. Works perfect in all browsers including IE10+. If sprite embedded in CSS - requires some additional styles for background image positioning. postcss-svg-mixer can be used to generate such styles.
• stack. SVG stacking technique - images placed one below the other and hidden by default. Target image becomes visible via CSS :target selector when referencing sprite, eg. sprite.svg#twitter. Doesn't work in Safari (both desktop and mobile) prior to 11.1 macOS and 11.3 iOS. Don't requires any styles when embedding.

spriteConfig

Type: Object

Fine tune sprite output.

• filename (default: 'sprite.svg'). Sprite file name.
• attrs (default: {}). Additional sprite SVG attributes, eg. { class: 'my-sprite' }.
• usages (default: true). Render images on sprite canvas or just place their symbols in <defs> section. It's useful to set false when sprite inlined directly to HTML markup and symbols are referenced via <use xlink:href="#symbol-id" />. Make sense only for classic sprite
• spacing (default: 10). Spacing between symbols in pixels. Make sense only for classic sprite

Stack sprite also has following options:

• usageClassName (default: sprite-symbol-usage). CSS classname of symbol to set. Needed to avoid possible conflicts between sprite and symbol styles.
• styles (default: see stack-sprite). CSS to archive stack technique. Will be placed in <defs> section.

generateSymbolId

Type: function(path: string, query: string = '') => string

Function to generate <symbol id> attribute. By default file name without extension is used. Accepts 2 arguments: absolute path to file and optional query string.

prettify

Type: boolean Default: false

Prettify sprite output.

spriteClass

Custom sprite implementation. See extending section.

symbolClass

Custom sprite symbol implementation. See extending section.

API

Main function

Main function accepts 2 arguments: glob pattern and config. Glob pattern could be string or array of strings. Relative/absolute path to file is also allowed:

mixer('img/*.svg');
mixer(['img/*.svg', '!img/raw/*.svg']); // all from img/, but not from img/raw/
mixer(['img/*.svg', 'path/to/file', '/absolute/path/to/file']);

Result

Result is an object with content and filename fields, and write() method:

Result<{
  content: string,
  filename: string,
  write(filepath: string) => Promise
}>

The rest API docs will be ASAP. For now check TypeScript definitions and source :)

Extending

svg-mixer offers OOP-like extending mechanism - to write custom sprite or symbol transformation you'll need to extend a base class and override generate method, which returns promise resolved with postsvg.tree.

Example: add class="my-super-class" to each node in generated sprite.

const mixer = require('svg-mixer');

class MySprite extends mixer.Sprite {
  generate() {
    // Call parent `generate` method and then transform the tree
    return super.generate().then(svg => {
      svg.each(node => node.attrs.class = 'my-super-class');
      return svg;
    });
  }
}

mixer('img/*.svg', { spriteClass: MySprite });

As it possible to pass query params when adding image to sprite by addSymbolFromFile compiler method, it makes possible to process single file with different params in various ways (like webpack does).

Example: fill one image with different colors.

const mixer = require('svg-mixer');
const transform = require('posthtml-transform');

class MySymbol extends mixer.SpriteSymbol {
  generate() {
    const { query } = this.image;
    return super.generate().then(svg => transform(query)(svg));
  }
}

const compiler = new mixer.Compiler({ symbolClass: MySymbol });
compiler
  .addSymbolFromFile('img.svg')
  .then(() => compiler.addSymbolFromFile('img.svg?fill=red'))
  .then(() => compiler.compile())
  .then(result => console.log(result.content));

The code above will generate sprite with 2 symbols - original image and filled with red color. In this example adding images and generating sprite performed manually, but when using svg-mixer adapters you'll need only to pass custom implementation to adapter config.

LICENSE

MIT