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https://github.com/dnnsk/icon-sprite-generator

User-friendly SVG sprite generation
https://github.com/dnnsk/icon-sprite-generator

icons-generator javascript javascript-library node-module sprite svg svg-icons svg-sprites

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User-friendly SVG sprite generation

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# icon-sprite-generator

> User-friendly SVG sprite generation

## Features

- Promise API
- Supports glob file matching (patterns based on [globby](https://github.com/sindresorhus/globby))
- SVG cleaner built-in (removes unneeded attributes and tags)
- Exports sprite on disk
- Optional wrapping with JavaScript Loader (for browsers)

## Install

```
$ npm install icon-sprite-generator --save
```

## Usage

```javascript
const generator = require("icon-sprite-generator");

/* async/await */
(async () => {
const sprite = await generator({
output: "file.svg",
});

console.log(sprite);
})();

/* Promises */
generator({
output: "file.svg",
}).then(sprite => {
console.log(sprite);
});
```

## API

### generator([options])

Returns a Promise of generated sprite.

#### options

Type: `Object`

##### input

Type: **[`globby pattern`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/globby)** (`string` `Array`)

Path/s to your directory with icons (supports multiple patterns).

##### output

Type: `string`

Default: `false`

Provide output path and full filename (with extension) if you want to save it on disk.

**Note:** Sprite will be wrapped with JS loader in case of extension equals ".js".

##### mode

Type: `string`

Default: `auto`

You can natively set mode to `jsLoader` if you want wrap sprite with JS Loader.

## JS Loader

This additional option can wrap generated sprite with JavaScript code for browsers.
It inserts your sprite into DOM on `DOMContentLoaded` event.

You can include this file into ``.

That's how it looks:

```js
(function() {
var ready = false;
var inject = function() {
if (ready) { return; }
ready = true;
var svgHolder = document.createElement("div");
svgHolder.className += "svg-sprites-holder";
svgHolder.innerHTML = "