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Mastering SVG

You're reading from   Mastering SVG Ace web animations, visualizations, and vector graphics with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788626743
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rob Larsen Rob Larsen
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Preface 1. Introducing Scalable Vector Graphics FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Authoring SVG 3. Digging Deeper with SVG Authoring 4. Using SVG in HTML 5. Working with SVG and CSS 6. JavaScript and SVG 7. Common JavaScript Libraries and SVG 8. SVG Animation and Visualizations 9. Helper Libraries Snap.svg and SVG.js 10. Working with D3.js 11. Tools to Optimize Your SVG 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with SVG.js


SVG.js was created by Wout Fierens and is currently maintained by Ulrich-Matthias Schäfer, Jon Ronnenberg, and Rémi Tétreault. It's designed to be lightweight and fast, and to be a friendly interface for working with SVG. It's more actively maintained than Snap.svg, so it's got that going for it. As of the time of writing, the most recent code was added to the project within the past two weeks.

Getting started with SVG.js

Like Snap.svg, SVG.js is available on npm, so the easiest way to get started with SVG.js is to install it using npm:

npm install svg.js

Note

Make sure you install svg.js with npm and not svg.js. Both work and both point to the correct project. svg.js is, however, out of date because the official package is svg.js.

It's also available for download directly from the website http://svgjs.com/installation/#download. It is also available to download or clone from GitHub, http://svgjs.com/ and is available on cdnjs.

Once you've done that, it's as easy as including...

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