Angular SVG Icon

The angular-svg-icon is an Angular 18 service and component that provides a means to inline SVG files to allow for them to be easily styled by CSS and code.

The service provides an icon registery that loads and caches a SVG indexed by its url. The component is responsible for displaying the SVG. After getting the svg from the registry it clones the SVGElement and the SVG to the component's inner HTML.

This demo shows this module in action.

How to use?

$ npm i angular-svg-icon --save

Versions

The latest version of the package is for Angular 18.

❕ BREAKING CHANGE: as of angular-svg-icon@18.0.0, the package was converted to use inject and signal from @common/core for improved performance. Thus method calls that are inputs should be avoided. Inputs are now signal inputs.

Note on earlier versions of Angular:

• For Angular 17, use angular-svg-icon@17.0.0
• For Angular 16, use angular-svg-icon@16.1.0
• For Angular 15, use angular-svg-icon@15.0.0
• For Angular 14, use angular-svg-icon@14.0.0
• For Angular 13, use angular-svg-icon@13.0.0
• For Angular 12, use angular-svg-icon@12.0.0
• For Angular 11, use angular-svg-icon@11.2.0
• For Angular 10, use angular-svg-icon@10.0.0
• For Angular 9, use angular-svg-icon@9.2.0
• For Angular 8, use angular-svg-icon@8.0.0
• For Angular 7, use angular-svg-icon@7.2.1
• For Angular 6, use angular-svg-icon@6.0.0
• For Angular 4.3 through Angular 5.x, use angular-svg-icon@5.1.1
• For Angular 2.4 through Angular 4.2, use angular-svg-icon@4.2.6

See the module's accompanying README.md for instructions.

Integration

The angular-svg-icon should work as-is with webpack/angular-cli. Just import the AngularSvgIconModule and the HttpClientModule.

Module Example

import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';
import { AngularSvgIconModule } from 'angular-svg-icon';

@NgModule({
  imports: [ HttpClientModule, AngularSvgIconModule.forRoot() ],
  ...
})
export class AppModule {}

Standalone Example

import { ApplicationConfig, provideZoneChangeDetection } from '@angular/core';
import { provideHttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { provideAngularSvgIcon } from 'angular-svg-icon';

export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
  providers: [
    provideZoneChangeDetection({ eventCoalescing: true }),
    provideHttpClient(),
    provideAngularSvgIcon()
  ]
};

❕ BREAKING CHANGE: as of angular-svg-icon@9.0.0, an explicit call to forRoot() must be made on the module's import.

Child Modules

Recommened usage pattern is to import AngularSvgIconModule.forRoot() in only the root AppModule of your application. In child modules, import only AngularSvgIconModule.

Use with Lazy Loading Feature Modules

Recommended usage pattern is to import AngularSvgIconModule.forRoot() in the root AppModule of your application. This will allow for one SvgIconRegistryService to be shared across all modules. If, for some reason, a lazily loaded module needs encapuslation of the service, then it is possible to load the AngularSvgIconModule.forRoot() in each lazy loaded module, but such usage precludes loading the package in the root AppModule.

Usage

Basic usage is:

Note that without a height or width set, the SVG may not display!

Loading with a name:

If the SVG was previously loaded with a name either via the component or registry, then it can be used like this:

More complex styling can be applied to the svg, for example:

The following attributes can be set on svg-icon:

• src - The path to SVG.
• name - An optional name of SVG, under which it was loaded via SvgIconRegistryService.
• [svgStyle] - Optional styles to be applied to the SVG, this is based on the familiar [ngStyle].
• [stretch] - An optional boolean (default is false) that when true, sets preserveAspectRatio="none" on the SVG. This is useful for setting both the height and width styles to strech or distort the svg.
• [class] - An optional string of the class or classes to apply to the SVG (duplicates what is set on the svg-icon).
• [applyClass] - An optional boolean (default is false) that copies the class attribute on the svg-icon and adds it to the SVG.
• [svgClass] - An optional string of the class or classes to apply to the SVG (independent of what is set for the class on the svg-icon).
• [viewBox] - An optional string to set the viewBox on the SVG. If the viewBox="auto", then svg-icon will attempt to convert the SVG's width and height attributes to a viewBox="0 0 w h". Both explicitly setting the viewBox or auto setting the viewBox will remove the SVG's width and height attributes.
• [svgAriaLabel] - An optional string to set the SVG's aria-label. If the SVG does not have a pre-existing aria-label and the svgAriaLabel is not set, then the SVG will be loaded with aria-hidden=true. If the SVG has an aria-label, then the SVG's default will be used. To remove the SVG's aria-label, assign an empty string '' to svgAriaLabel. Doing so will remove any existing aria-label and set aria-hidden=true on the SVG.

Deprecated attribute:

• [applyCss] - Renamed as [applyClass] (as of v9.2.0).

Using the Svg-Icon Registry

Programatic interaction with the registry is also possible. Include the private iconReg: SvgIconRegistryService in the constructor:

constructor(private iconReg:SvgIconRegistryService) { }

The registry has three public functions: loadSvg(string), addSvg(string, string), and unloadSvg(string).

To preload a SVG file from a URL into the registry:

{
  ...
  this.iconReg.loadSvg('foo.svg').subscribe();
}

To preload a SVG file from a URL into the registry with predefined name:

{
  ...
  this.iconReg.loadSvg('foo.svg', 'foo').subscribe();
}

To add a SVG from a string:

{
  ...
  this.iconReg.addSvg('box',
   '<svg viewBox="0 0 10 10" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M1 1 L1 9 L9 9 L9 1 Z"></path></svg>'
  );
}

To unload a SVG from the registry.

{
  ...
  this.iconReg.unloadSvg('foo.svg');
}

Usage with Angular Universal

When rendering on server-side, the SVGs must be loaded via the file system. This can be achieved by providing an SvgLoader to the server module:

export function svgLoaderFactory(https: HttpClient, transferState: TransferState) {
  return new SvgServerLoader('browser/assets/icons', transferState);
}

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    AngularSvgIconModule.forRoot({
      loader: {
        provide: SvgLoader,
        useFactory: svgLoaderFactory,
        deps: [ HttpClient, TransferState ],
      }
    }),
    AppModule,
    ServerModule,
    ServerTransferStateModule,
    ModuleMapLoaderModule,
  ],
  bootstrap: [ AppComponent ],
})
export class AppServerModule {
}

// Standalone Example
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    AppModule,
    ServerModule,
    ServerTransferStateModule,
    ModuleMapLoaderModule,
  ],
  providers: [ provideAngularSvgIcon({
      loader: {
        provide: SvgLoader,
        useFactory: svgLoaderFactory,
        deps: [ HttpClient, TransferState ],
      }
    }) ],
  bootstrap: [ AppComponent ],
})
export class AppServerModule {
}

The loader itself is up to you to implement because it depends on where your icons are stored locally. An implementation that additionally saves the icons in the transfer state of your app in order to avoid double requests could look like that:

const fs = require('fs');
const join = require('path').join;
const parseUrl = require('url').parse;
const baseName = require('path').basename;

export class SvgServerLoader implements SvgLoader {

  constructor(private iconPath: string,
    private transferState: TransferState) {
  }

  getSvg(url: string): Observable {
    const parsedUrl:URL = parseUrl(url);
    const fileNameWithHash = baseName(parsedUrl.pathname);
    // Remove content hashing
    const fileName = fileNameWithHash.replace(/^(.*)(\.[0-9a-f]{16,})(\.svg)$/i, '$1$3');
    const filePath = join(this.iconPath, fileName);
    return Observable.create(observer => {
      const svgData = fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8');

      // Here we save the translations in the transfer-state
      const key: StateKey = makeStateKey('transfer-svg:' + url);
      this.transferState.set(key, svgData);

      observer.next(svgData);
      observer.complete();
    });
  }
}

Note that this is executed in a local Node.js context, so the Node.js API is available.

A loader for the client module that firstly checks the transfer state could look like that:

export class SvgBrowserLoader implements SvgLoader {
  constructor(private transferState: TransferState,
    private https: HttpClient) {
  }
  getSvg(url: string): Observable {
    const key: StateKey = makeStateKey('transfer-svg:' + url);
    const data = this.transferState.get(key, null);
    // First we are looking for the translations in transfer-state, if none found, http load as fallback
    if (data) {
      return Observable.create(observer => {
        observer.next(data);
        observer.complete();
      });
    } else {
      return new SvgHttpLoader(this.http).getSvg(url);
    }
  }
}

This is executed on browser side. Note that the fallback when no data is available uses SvgHttpLoader, which is also the default loader if you don't provide one.

Example Project with Angular Universal and angular-svg-icon

An Angular Universal example project is also available. The basic steps to get it work is:

1. Add this snippet to the package.json file to prevent compilation issues:

        "browser": {
          "fs": false,
          "path": false,
          "os": false
        }

2. Add ServerTransferStateModule to app.server.module
3. Add BrowserTransferStateModule to app.module
4. The loader should be different per platform, so the factory should receive the PLATFORM_ID and load the correct class appropriately (this is already added in the example).

SVG Preparation

The SVG should be modified to remove the height and width attributes from the file per Sara Soueidan's advice in "Making SVGs Responsive With CSS" if size is to be modified through CSS. Removing the height and width has two immedate impacts: (1) CSS can be used to size the SVG, and (2) CSS will be required to size the SVG.

Background

The svg-icon is an Angular component that allows for the continuation of the AngularJS method for easily inlining SVGs explained by Ben Markowitz and others. Including the SVG source inline allows for the graphic to be easily styled by CSS.

The technique made use of ng-include to inline the svg source into the document. Angular 2, however, dropped the support of ng-include, so this was my work-around method.

Note: The icon component from angular/material2 used to have a direct means to load svg similar to this, but this functionality was removed because of security concerns.

License

MIT

Author

• David Czeck @czeckd and community contributors. Thank you!