@becklyn/svg-min

svg-min

Minifies SVGs.

This small lib combines the following features:

• Applies transforms, so that the transforms are automatically absorbed into the paths.
• Removes unnecessary attributes.
• Moves the complete SVG, so that the origin is at 0 0.
• Crops the artboard to only contain the actual object and no whitespace around it.
• Runs SVGO.

Installation

npm -g i @becklyn/svg-min

Usage

# will overwrite the original file
svg-min test.svg 

# will create the minified file in test.min.svg
svg-min test.svg --keep

# will create the minified file in out.svg
svg-min test.svg out.svg

# globs are also supported
svg-min *.svg

# if your shell automatically replaces globs use
svg-min "*.svg"

Caveats

The implementation is pretty rudimentary and a lot of SVG features are not supported:

• The script will bail if any transform except translate is used.
• The cropping of the artboard might fail.