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Comparison with other loaders

vite-awesome-svg-loader stands out from the other loaders by:

  1. Providing numerous ways to load SVGs, each for its own use case.
  2. Providing useful transformations.

This articles explores concrete packages and compares them to vite-awesome-svg-loader.

vite-svg-loader

  1. Implements a part of vite-awesome-svg-loader functionality.
  2. Supports importing SVGs as Vue components with SVGs being inlined in the DOM.

SVG inlining can be done with vite-awesome-svg-loader in a similar manner like so:

<template>
  <div v-html="imageSrc" />
</template>


<script lang="ts" setup>
import imageSrc from "./path/to/image.svg";
</script>

Moreover, this approach can be applied to any other framework or to just vanilla JS.

@poppanator/sveltekit-svg, vite-plugin-react-svg, @svgx/vite-plugin-react, rollup-plugin-svelte-svg, vite-plugin-solid-svg and many more

  1. Implement a part of vite-awesome-svg-loader functionality.
  2. Focus on specific framework.
  3. Inline SVGs only.

vite-plugin-svg-icons, vite-plugin-magical-svg, vite-plugin-svg-sprite

  1. Implement a part of vite-awesome-svg-loader functionality.

Other loaders and plugins

There are many other loaders and plugins that handle SVGs, but they generally fall into the categories above. If you know of one that offers unique functionality not covered here, please open an issue.