svgshelf

svgshelf

A simple CLI for shelving (or merging, stacking, bundling) multiple svg into a single file, for nodejs/iojs.

Motivation

We use npm run build as our build tool, and since svgo already does the hard work of optimizing our svg files, this is a command line tool to help us with the last step: bundling svg into a single file, so you can reference it as a cachable, single external file, through fragment identifier.

Much of the idea here is based on grunt-svgstore and gulp-svgstore, which are perfectly fine if you use grunt/gulp, but if all you need is a simple CLI, svgshelf got your covered.

Install

npm install svgshelf --save-dev or npm install svgshelf -g

Usage

As a command, escape * to prevent bash glob expansion

svgshelf svg/input/\*.svg svg/output/single.svg

As a npm build tool, escape \ since we are in a string

{
	"scripts": {
		"build": "svgo -f svg/folder/ && svgshelf svg/input/\\*.svg svg/output/single.svg"
	}
}

License

MIT