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feat(astro): add Built-in SVG component support #12067

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This PR implements Built-in SVG Components following up on the discussions on withastro/roadmap#699

By default, SVG files will be components and can be imported by referencing their file path and then treating them like a component. Take this for example:

previously:

---
import Image from 'astro:assets'
import logo from './path/to/svg/file.svg'
---

<div set:html={logo}  style={{height: '24px', width: '24px' }} />
<!-- or -->
<Image src={logo} width={24} height={24} />

now:

---
import Logo from './path/to/svg/file.svg';
---

<Logo size={24} />

GOALS:

  • Allow users to import and render local .svg files as if they were an Astro component
  • Allow passing props onto the root element while overriding the existing props
  • Automate best practices for to minimize performance footguns
    • Including many inlined on a page can hurt browser parsing performance. We can automatically reduce the number of nodes by using and .
    • Inline often have xmlns and xmlns:xlink and version attributes. These are not needed in HTML5 and we can automatically drop them to save a few bytes.
  • Support this in a backwards-compatible way, meaning the current public interface of an .svg import remains unchanged
  • Stretch: support rendering .svg components in frameworks without inlining them into the client side JavaScript
    • Creating framework components for .svg icons is an anti-pattern. It’s a terrible idea that bloats your JavaScript and creates all sorts of headaches for HMR and clientside performance in production.
    • If we provide a great component for each supported framework, we’ll make it easy for users to avoid this anti-pattern. It’s so common now because there aren’t many other good solutions.

This builds a foundation for us which can be extended in the future within the core astro and even by third-parties. For instance using astro-icon, which has been the critical plugin when it comes to icons, as a playground, I was able to extend the foundation built here to add dynamic icon import for Iconify.

FUTURE:

  • Optimization: Allow hooking in SVGO or other SVG Optimizers

/cc @natemoo-re

Testing

I have ensured that existing tests are functioning properly and added additional suite for SVG Components.

Manually, I have updated the blog example to include using the SVG components. I have also tested locally against astro-icon and its demo application. Will work on some testing for this change.

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Docs added in withastro/docs#9911

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Left a few suggestions, but this looks really good!

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* Bypasses automatic sprite optimization by directly inlinining the SVG
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inline?: boolean
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After sitting with this for a while, inline behavior should be the default. There are a few edge-cases that have come up with dynamic client-side behavior in astro-icon, so while I still think the optimization is very useful, we should prioritize flexibility by keeping the sprite behavior opt-in.

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You're right. I think especially with the SVG imports that developers wouldn't necessarily assume the optimization by default.

My first thought is to offer a "mode" that allows for "sprite" or "inline" ("inline" being the default) that is configurable in the Astro Config. I assume we'll later have some other properties under and "svg" scope such as an "image service" (like svgo).

I have also seen an interesting use-case (natemoo-re/astro-icon#238) that we might be able to support later for exporting symbols instead. This would be fairly trivial with a "mode" and might enable some better DX around framework usages.

I would like to discuss and perhaps iterate a bit on the way we allow developers to opt-in/out of inline/sprite usages. Will bring this up in the Stage 3 RFC.

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// Attach file data for SVGs
if (fileMetadata.format === 'svg') {
emittedImage.contents = fileData;
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Would love @Princesseuh's take on this. Any expected footguns with including the file content for SVGs in the image metadata?

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If you have a lot of SVGs, this can be problematic for SSR since it'll get in your bundle, that's my only concerns

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Right. Unfortunately that will be unavoidable for this feature.

I think the DX improvement is worth the tradeoff, though!

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This is definitely outside my realm of expertise. I'll defer to whatever the consensus is here :)

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Something we could do one day (definitely outside of this PR), though it'd make SVG icons somewhat slower in SSR is add a lazy data property or something, that's essentially async () => await fetch(this.src) in SSR and something else in SSG so that you can load the data without it being added to the bundle.

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If you have a lot of SVGs, this can be problematic for SSR since it'll get in your bundle, that's my only concerns

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stramel commented Oct 5, 2024

I have added it behind an experiment flag called svg. With this change, I swapped the default implementation to be a more straightforward approach of inlining the SVG. In order to control this a bit better, I have a mode setting in the svg config to apply a default, which is defaulted to inline. I also changed the inline prop to a mode prop that will allow configuring between inline and sprite on specific SVGs.

@natemoo-re would love your opinion on this approach for configuring the sprite vs inline method

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stramel commented Oct 22, 2024

Going to double-check everything tomorrow! Hopefully we're good to merge after that

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stramel commented Oct 22, 2024

Should be good to go!

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Just pointing out I haven't seen any docs for this yet, so please let me know if those are coming or if help is needed!

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stramel commented Oct 28, 2024

Just pointing out I haven't seen any docs for this yet, so please let me know if those are coming or if help is needed!

I'm not familiar with the docs process. I would be happy to write some if you could point me to a previous PR or something as a guide. I also would welcome some help as writing isn't my forte 🙂

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ematipico commented Oct 30, 2024

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Since we are about to send this PR to next, you'll have to send the docs PR to their respective branch, which is 5.0.0-beta.

As for where, I would start with the Images guide: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/images/

https://github.com/withastro/docs/blob/5.0.0-beta/src/content/docs/en/guides/images.mdx

As for where in the page, I don't exactly know, but I would start with a new paragraph (maybe an h2 heading) and send the PR, then Sarah and team will take it from there, and will help you to craft the content.

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IIUC, if this is on the module-level (and also globally as a singleton), wouldn't this value not be incremented on a per-page basis? If per page, I think it should be bound to the result from createComponent as a single result is created when rendering per page. So maybe we can use a WeakMap here to track the ids per result, which we can also use it to track the first render instead of using WeakSet<Response>?

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I agree that WeakMap seems like a good idea here!

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I'm not quite following how to use the WeakMap here.

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The suggestion here is to use const ids = new WeakMap<SSRResult, number> instead to track the id per result (from createComponent)

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I'm having trouble getting this to work. I'll give it a shot again tomorrow. Maybe I'm just tired 😅

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I'll help you out :)

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Thanks! I missed that we would still need to keep the counter/ids. I'm curious what the WeakMap adds in this case since we're still generating the ids by the counter.

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Looks really good!

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I agree that WeakMap seems like a good idea here!

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ematipico commented Nov 6, 2024

@stramel While I was working on the PR, I noticed that you added a new configuration in Astro, which is fine, however the RFC doesn't mention anything about it. We should update the RFC and explain the options.

Also, here's some feedback regarding experimental options. There aren't written rules, but in the past I was in your same situation and I went for this route:

export default defineConfig({
	svg: {
		mode: "inline"
	},
	experimental: {
		svg: true
	}
})

We still need to have the experimental flag, which stays a boolean every time. Then, you create a new section in the Astro configuration. You're still free to change it as you see fit, because it's part of the experimental feature, however I found that the maintenance of these two separate sections is easier for us maintainers.

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Thank you so much for this amazing feature @stramel ! I think people are going to really enjoy this! 🙌

I've done a quick pass on the documentation (changeset and flag docs) and you'll find some suggestions below for your consideration!

I know Nate has a docs PR going, and it seems like the mode property is newer than that, so we'll just make sure that we've got everything we need in the docs PR, too, before docs totally signs off on this! 🚀

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* - `inline`: Astro will inline the SVG content into your HTML output.
* - `sprite`: Astro will generate a sprite sheet with all imported SVG files.
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* When using 'sprite' mode, it is important to note that the symbol definition will be included with the first instance of the SVG that is rendered. This means that if the first instance is hidden or removed from the DOM, all other references will break.
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* When using 'sprite' mode, it is important to note that the symbol definition will be included with the first instance of the SVG that is rendered. This means that if the first instance is hidden or removed from the DOM, all other references will break.
* When using 'sprite' mode, it is important to note that the symbol definition will be included with the first instance of the SVG that is rendered. This means that if the first instance is hidden or removed from the DOM, all other references will break.

Question: is this unique to Astro's implementation, or would this be something common to using a sprite sheet in general? I get that it's a caveat, but if it's not an Astro-specific caveat then it's a little bit more for the reader to have to process before they even see how to use this feature.

I might suggest we either remove this paragraph entirely (we do say full details in the RFC!), or place it after the code example if this is a super key thing and people will have a lot of trouble using the feature if they don't know this immediately up front.

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This is unique to the implementation that we chose to go with. Though it would probably apply to the spritesheet in general but is significantly less common if you just have a single spritesheet.

This is something I was debating about adding as an enhancement later or opt-in. Would need some help from the core team on it though.

I'll leave it up to you if we keep this caveat or remove it.

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