jamesporter / use-svg

Like Figma, but use React rather than mouse clicks?

use-svg-maker

What if you used React to draw SVGs, rather than clicking a mouse a lot in Figma? React has components too.

Recommended: Introduction and Tutorial, where you will learn to draw the below image:

Or explore a basic Code Sandbox Now

See source code for a partial example or read the source code (it is pretty simple).

Install

See use-svg-maker npm page. Install with:

npm i use-svg-maker

Use in React projects, I would recommend something like Vite for a server (choosing React and TypeScript) and pulling in leva to make it trivial to parameterize drawings.

Import:

import { useSVG } from "use-svg-maker"

Use:

const { ref, download, name, setName, props, meta } = useSVG({
  height: 540,
  width: 960,
})

<svg className=" bg-white" {...props} ref={ref}>
  {/* draw things here with code */}
</svg>

Add something like this to allow local saving of files:

<div className="flex flex-row gap-4 items-center mt-8 print:hidden">
    <input
    type="text"
    value={name}
    onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)}
    className="p-4 rounded bg-slate-100 text-slate-700"
    />
    <p className="text-white text-lg">.svg</p>
</div>

<button
    className="bg-emerald-500 text-white p-4 rounded-lg mt-8 print:hidden"
    onClick={download}
>
    Download
</button>

Releases

• 0.0.1 - Initial release