1.0.0 • Published 6 years ago

icon-sprite-generator v1.0.0

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MIT
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github
Last release
6 years ago

icon-sprite-generator

User-friendly SVG sprite generation

Features

  • Promise API
  • Supports glob file matching (patterns based on globby)
  • SVG cleaner built-in (removes unneeded attributes and tags)
  • Exports sprite on disk
  • Optional wrapping with JavaScript Loader (for browsers)

Install

$ npm install icon-sprite-generator --save

Usage

const generator = require("icon-sprite-generator");

/* async/await */
(async () => {
    const sprite = await generator({
        output: "file.svg",
    });

    console.log(sprite);
})();

/* Promises */
generator({
    output: "file.svg",
}).then(sprite => {
    console.log(sprite);
});

API

generator(options)

Returns a Promise of generated sprite.

options

Type: Object

input

Type: globby pattern (string Array)

Path/s to your directory with icons (supports multiple patterns).

output

Type: string Default: false

Provide output path and full filename (with extension) if you want to save it on disk.

Note: Sprite will be wrapped with JS loader in case of extension equals ".js".

mode

Type: string Default: auto

You can natively set mode to jsLoader if you want wrap sprite with JS Loader.

JS Loader

This additional option can wrap generated sprite with JavaScript code for browsers. It inserts your sprite into DOM on DOMContentLoaded event.

You can include this file into <head>.

That's how it looks:

(function() {
var ready = false;
var inject = function() {
if (ready) { return; }
ready = true;
var svgHolder = document.createElement("div");
svgHolder.className += "svg-sprites-holder";
svgHolder.innerHTML = "<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\....";
document.body.appendChild(svgHolder);
};
if (document.readyState === "complete") { inject(); }
else { document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", inject); }
})();

Tests

In order to test this module - run npm test

License

MIT © Denis Kalinichenko