parsers VS svgr

Specify if also a good all-in-one tool I just found yesterday https://specifyapp.com/

Today quite some companies are already tackling similar problems. Talking of Knapsack.cloud, Backlight.dev, Specify, Supernova and many more, here. They all deliver value to simplify workflows for setup, integration, documentation and management of Design Systems. This is all super helpful in spreading the love about Design Systems to teams out there, and is a huge benefit to the process side of things. But you usually still need to create or import all of your components, which means that you still have some hard work before to you yourself, before finally benefitting from these tools. There’s also a lot (knowledge and work) going into the setup of a Design System (semantic tokens, hardened components, etc) that’s not solved by those tools, yet.

By default Specify returns design data in JSON but thanks its open source parsers you can transform your design data in any formats. I repeat, in any formats.

https://story.to.design/ https://specifyapp.com/

At Specify, We started experimenting with the Shape Up methodology a few weeks ago to define focused projects, address unknowns, and increase collaboration and engagement within the team. So, I started to learn more about how other teams implemented it, too.

here's a list of their parsers: https://github.com/Specifyapp/parsers/tree/master/parsers

For each rule we can use a different filter, such that the rule only applies to certain types of design tokens. Next to filters, we can also use parsers, which will manipulate the raw design tokens (which are in JSON format) and output a format that suits the programming language and platform more. Parsers behave like a pipeline, where each parser receives the input of the previous one. There are a lot of parsers to choose from, some perform very low level transformations such as round-number and camelcasify, but also full-blown parsers to a single technology such as to-tailwind and to-react-native.

//@ts-check // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires const { composePlugins, withNx } = require('@nx/next'); /** * @type {import('@nx/next/plugins/with-nx').WithNxOptions} **/ const nextConfig = { nx: { // Set this to true if you would like to use SVGR // See: https://github.com/gregberge/svgr svgr: false, }, }; const plugins = [ // Add more Next.js plugins to this list if needed. withNx, ]; module.exports = composePlugins(...plugins)(nextConfig);

Most of the time, developers tend to add svg images to an assets directory and import them either directly or as a React component. This process not only increases your app bundle size but also makes managing all the assets difficult. What if there was a way to manage all the application icons like the way we import them from any other icon library? Yes, react-svgr helps you manage all the icons in your React application.

If you are using react, there is a tool called SVGR, which will take in an SVG file and return a react component with all the props. This can be really useful if you want to treat SVG more like a markup that will be embedded directly into your HTML. This becomes really helpful when you want to style SVG through props or add transformations and animations. Using SVG directly in markup has so many perks and advantages to the point i don't use them as source in image tags.

Really interesting framework agnostic approach, but I think SVGR is a better option for my React homies. It imports an SVG file as a React component. Shouts also to react-icons if Font Awesome, Material Icons and friends are more your bag.

SVGR

There is another way to import an SVG in Create React App, though. We can import the SVG as a ReactComponent. This is because CRA leverages SVGR to process SVGs.

const { types } = require('@babel/core'); module.exports = { ... template: function svgrCustomTemplate( { imports, interfaces, componentName, props, jsx, exports }, { tpl } ) { // меняем корневой элемент на SvgIcon jsx.openingElement.name.name = 'SvgIcon'; jsx.closingElement.name.name = 'SvgIcon'; // https://github.com/gregberge/svgr/issues/530 // при изменении корневого элемента пропадает спред пропсов // поэтому необходимо добавить спред пропсов самостоятельно jsx.openingElement.attributes.push( types.jSXSpreadAttribute(types.identifier('props')) ); return tpl` ${imports}; import { SvgIcon } from '../SvgIcon'; ${interfaces}; const ${componentName} = (${props}) => ( ${jsx} ); ${exports}; ` } }

Is this an icon or icon set? Because you can absolutely change SVG icons into react components with SVGR. https://react-svgr.com/