svg2sprite

A very simple module to generate SVG sprites.

Install

$ npm i -D svg2sprite

Why?

Existing solutions have many dependencies.

Usage

const svgSprite = require('svg2sprite');
const sprite = svgSprite.collection({ inline: true });

sprite.add('chevron-up', '<svg><path d="M10 10l-1.5 1.5L5 7.75 1.5 11.5 0 10l5-5z"></path></svg>');
sprite.add('chevron-down', '<svg><path d="M5 11L0 6l1.5-1.5L5 8.25 8.5 4.5 10 6z"></path></svg>');

const svg = sprite.compile();

console.log(svg);
// <svg position="absolute" height="0" width="0">
//   <symbol id="chevron-up"><path d="M10 10l-1.5 1.5L5 7.75 1.5 11.5 0 10l5-5z"></path></symbol>
//   <symbol id="chevron-down"><path d="M5 11L0 6l1.5-1.5L5 8.25 8.5 4.5 10 6z"></path></symbol>
// </svg>

Supported methods

.collection([options])

This method creates a new item collection and returns the available methods for it. See all available options.

.add(name, content, options)

This method adds an item to the collection. Using the last argument you can transfer individual settings for that item (e.g. attributes). See all available options.

.get(name)

Returns the contents of a specified element.

.remove(name)

Removes the specified item from the collection.

.clean()

Removes all elements in the collection.

.compile()

Returns the builded sprite.

Supported options

rootAttributes

• Type: Object
• Default: {}

The attributes that will be added to the root svg tag.

inline

• Type: Boolean
• Default: false

If you want to embed the sprite into your HTML source, you will want to set this to true in order to prevent the creation of SVG namespace declarations and to set some other attributes for effectively hiding the library sprite.

iconAttributes

• Type: Object
• Default: {}

The attributes of each icon. Current attribute values will be overwritten.

iconPrefix

• Type: String
• Default: ''

The name prefix for each icon.

iconSuffix

• Type: String
• Default: ''

The name suffix for each icon.

clean.stripEmptyTags

• Type: Boolean
• Default: true

Removes empty tags such as <defs></defs> or <g></g>.

clean.stripTags

• Type: Array
• Default: ['title', 'desc']

Removes tags, that are listed in this list.

clean.stripAttrs

• Type: Array
• Default: []

Removes attributes, that are listed in this list.

If you specify a string, then use the strict comparison. You can also specify the object and the type of comparison.

{
  clean: {
    stripAttrs: [
      // true for: style=".."
      'style',
      // true for: stoke="..", stoke-width="..", etc.
      { pattern: 'stroke', strict: false }
    ]
  }
}

clean.stripExtraAttrs

• Type: Boolean
• Default: true

Removes Sketch and xmlns:* attributes.

clean.stripStyles

• Type: Boolean|Array
• Default: true

Removes style attributes from SVG definitions, or a list of the properties that will be removed from style tag and atrribute.

Related

• svg2sprite-cli - CLI interface for this module.
• yellfy-svg-sprite - svg2sprite wrapper for easy integration into the development process.

Changelog

See the Releases section of our GitHub project for changelogs for each release version.

License

This software is released under the terms of the MIT license.