SVGx

is a universal SVG renderer

Description | Installation | Usage | Api | License

Description

Thanks to React it is feasible to achieve server side rendering SVG. However, there is a pit fall: doctype is missing. This package prepends a doctype to generated SVG.

Actually, this package is also a recipe to render and test SVG server side.

You can try this example.js script, by launching commands

git clone https://github.com/fibo/SVGx.git
cd SVGx
npm install
npm run example

It generates the following SVG output

Installation

With npm do

npm install svgx

Usage

Installing react and react-dom is up to you: svgx does not declare them as dependencies, cause you could use a different version or even other React-like engine. Same logic applies to awesome babel packages, you could use any other transpiler.

Anyway, to get the job done, you can do

npm install react react-dom babel-cli babel-env --save-dev

Then run the following script with babel.

#!/usr/bin/env babel-node

import React from 'react'
import reactDom from 'react-dom/server'
import svgx from 'svgx'

const render = svgx(reactDom.renderToStaticMarkup)

const jsx = (
  <svg
    xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'
    xmlnsXlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink'
    width={200} height={200}
  >
    <circle cx={100} cy={100} r={50} />
  </svg>
)

const svgOutput = render(jsx)

console.log(svgOutput)

NOTA BENE: Attributes xmlns and xmlnsXlink are mandatory to get a valid SVG file.

API

svgxRender = svgx(jsxRender)

Get your svgx wrapper.

/**
  * @param {Function} jsxRender function, for instance `reactDom.renderToStaticMarkup`
  * @return {Function} svgxRender wrapper
  */

svgxRender(jsx[, opts])

Wrapper for static JSX render function: it works server side.

/**
  * @param {ReactElement} jsx to be rendered.
  * @param {Object} [opts] Options can be omitted, just ignore them and it will work fine.
  * @param {String} [opts.doctype] defaults to a common SVG doctype. You can remove it by setting it to the blank string `''` or any other doctype you need.
  * @return {String} markup in SVG format
  */

License

MIT