▶Book Description
SVG is the most powerful image format in use on the web. In addition to producing resolution-independent images for today's multi-device world, SVG allows you to create animations and visualizations to add to your sites and applications. The simplicity of cross-platform markup, mixed with familiar modern web languages, such as CSS and JavaScript, creates a winning combination for designers and developers alike.
In this book, you will learn how to author an SVG document using common SVG features, such as elements and attributes, and serve SVG on the web using simple configuration tips for common web servers. You will also use SVG elements and images in HTML documents.
Further, you will use SVG images for a variety of common tasks, such as manipulating SVG elements, adding animations using CSS, mastering the basic JavaScript SVG (API) using Document Object Model (DOM) methods, and interfacing SVG with common libraries and frameworks, such as React, jQuery, and Angular.
You will then build an understanding of the Snap.svg and SVG.js APIs, along with the basics of D3, and take a look at how to implement interesting visualizations using the library. By the end of the book, you will have mastered creating animations with SVG.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Deliver the elements that make up an SVG image
⦁ Replace your old CSS sprites with SVG
⦁ Understand animation and data visualization with SVG are explained in pure JavaScript and using common libraries
⦁ Use SVG to scale images across multiple devices easily
⦁ Harness the power of CSS animations and transformations to manipulate your SVG images in a replicable, remixable way
⦁ Interface SVG with common libraries and frameworks, such as jQuery, React, and Angular
▶Key Features
⦁ Master the art of custom animations and visualizations with SVG, CSS, and JavaScript
⦁ Combine SVG with third-party libraries and frameworks such as React, JQuery, D3, and Snap.svg for GUI-rich apps
⦁ Create an awesome user experience with high-performance graphics for your web applications
▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for web developers interested in exploring Scalable Vector Graphics. It is written from the perspective of a frontend web developer, but anyone with experience with JavaScript, CSS, and XML-based grammars should find this book accessible.
Prior experience with SVG is not required.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Introducing Scalable Vector Graphics, introduces the basics of SVG and will show you some fundamental examples of working with the format.
⦁ Chapter 2, Getting Started with Authoring SVG, introduces the fundamental concepts for authoring SVG in detail.
⦁ Chapter 3, Digging Deeper with SVG Authoring, introduces more advanced concepts for authoring SVG, including transformations, clipping and masking, and importing SVG elements into a document.
⦁ Chapter 4, Using SVG in HTML, adds further details about using SVG elements and SVG images in HTML documents.
⦁ Chapter 5, Working with SVG and CSS, introduces the reader to using SVG images in CSS, replacing PNGs and Gifs in the modern web development toolkit. This chapter also introduces the many ways you can use CSS to modify SVG elements.
⦁ Chapter 6, JavaScript and SVG, teaches the reader the basic JavaScript SVG Application Programming Interface by introducing the common Document Object Model methods that allow a developer to access and manipulate SVG properties.
⦁ Chapter 7, Common JavaScript Libraries and SVG, teaches the basics of interfacing with SVG from common libraries and frameworks includding jQuery, AngularJS, Angular, and ReactJS.
⦁ Chapter 8, SVG Animation and Visualizations, looks at examples of doing visualizations and animations with SVG.
⦁ Chapter 9, Helper Libraries Snap.svg and SVG.js, looks at two current libraries that help with common SVG tasks: Snap.svg and SVG.js.
⦁ Chapter 10, Working with D3.js, introduces basic uses of D3 and walks through some simple examples in order to whet your appetite for this powerful library.
⦁ Chapter 11, Tools to Optimize Your SVG, focuses on the different tools available to optimize SVGs.
