SVGcode VS bundlejs

Raster Image to SVG Converter

here are some options -- potrace is free, or https://svgco.de/... there's also this extension that puts them in an a1111 extension. Illustrator also has a function for it, if you have access

Thanks to SVGCode (https://github.com/tomayac/SVGcode) which did already my idea to compile POTRACE into WebASM/JS so to get rid of exectuables and faster inbrowser-vectorizing (the guy in the input example image is Richard Feynman)

Oh op use this for png to svg conversion if you do not have better Ai or pro design tools. https://svgco.de

This issue was about experimenting with SVGCode to see if it could be used to convert raster images to SVGs. I blogged about this process in my last post. I created a pull request which demoed the results of my research by including several SVGs that I created using SVGCode, Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape. Overall, I think that Inkscape produced the most consistent results for coloured and black and white images compared to other tools I tried, which I mentioned in my PR.

In a previous post, I mentioned working on an issue for converting raster images to SVGs. This week, I did some research on the tool recommended in the issue, SVGCode, as well as other popular tools and in this post I will be discussing some of what I learned after trying them out. For the tools that I tried, I wanted to find something that is free and easy to use, while still creating high quality SVGs, as there are a lot of images to convert. (Disclaimer: I'm pretty new to working with images and image editing software so I'm probably not using all the right terminology here, but I'm trying to learn!)

Thanks for the kind words! The documentation is still missing (tracked in part as https://github.com/tomayac/SVGcode/issues/19), but Potrace, the library SVGcode is based upon, has detailed information in a PDF on all parameters: http://potrace.sourceforge.net/potracelib.pdf.

Package Size Checker

I was closing out some long lived issues over on bundlejs, when issue #50 reminded me of the ongoing debate about how bundlejs should handle the ESM and CJS packages.

Still, I'm not really sure about its dependencies: it lists react and @tanstack/react-query (as opposed to @tanstack/query-core) and bundlejs reports 124KB gzipped. Also, while using it, you still need to refer to their react docs (that documentation is really good and has a lot of examples) but not everyone will be thrilled about checking a react documentation when they're using an angular package.

It's somewhere in between.

React as a lib and architecture _is_ platform-agnostic. The core logic is defined in the `react-reconciler` package. It contains all the implementation of rendering components, diffing trees, managing state, and running effects, as well as all the "Suspense" implementation.

However, the way `react-reconciler` works is that it's built _into_ each platform-specific renderer implementation. So, the size of `react-dom` is actually the size of `react-reconciler` + all the DOM-specific behavior.

A quick check of https://bundlejs.com/?q=react-reconciler suggests it's about 100K minified. https://bundlejs.com/?q=react-dom is 138K, so that tells me that the DOM-specific logic is 38K.

React Hook Form has no dependencies and a small bundle size. It has a gzipped bundle size of 12.12KB, according to bundlejs.

These are shameless plugs, but https://bundlejs.com and https://inthistweet.app. I built both tools specifically because I didn't find any other tools that solved the problems I kept running into.

Try https://bundlejs.com/ to see

bundlejs (pronounced bundle js) is a quick and easy way to treeshake, bundle, minify, and compress (in either gzip or brotli) your typescript, javascript, jsx and npm projects, while receiving the total bundles' file size.

Don't know of any but was going thru Adam Wathan's twits and replies. Found, https://github.com/okikio/bundle Looks medium sized.