svgr VS blog-series-nextjs-nx

yeah, not sure why anyone would copy-paste SVG as JSX when SVGR exists: https://react-svgr.com/

SVGO (or SVGR for react) is making it a very easy process. Behind the scenes, it mostly deletes all unnecessary stuff for us.

The Icons and Fonts modules add depth to the visual language. Icons are managed through an efficient process that generates components from SVG files using SVGR and tsup. This ensures that icons are consistent and can be flexibly integrated across the system.

//@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

You can find the icons here.

GitHub repository All the sources for this article can be found in this GitHub repository's branch: https://github.com/juristr/blog-series-nextjs-nx/tree/02-setup-tailwind