How to render svg files with Gatsby Image?

Question

Currently in my project I have a folder with all my svg files, the query to get them from graphql is as follows:

query AssetsPhotos {
  allFile(filter: {extension: {regex: "/(svg)/"}, relativeDirectory: {eq: "svg"}}) {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        name
      }
    }
  }
}

but unlike image files (.png, jpg, etc) I don't have the GatsbyImageData option, how could I render them if I want something like this:

 {SgvsData.map(({ image,id,title}) => (

              <GatsbyImage image={getImage(image.gatsbyImageData)} alt={title} key={id} />

          ))}

I tried options like publicUrl, children and childImageSharp, but the image doesn't render. Thank you very much in advance

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '22 at 13:41

You can query the SVG via publicURL but you can't render it using GatsbyImage. So just use the <img> tag, and you don't need a plugin.

query MyQuery {
  allFile(filter: {extension: {in: "svg"}}) {
    nodes {
      publicURL
    }
  }
}

And than to render it:

<img src={...publicURL} alt=""/>

Ferran Buireu · Answer 2 · 2022-03-30T10:42:46.600

How to render svg files with Gatsby Image?

Short answer: you can't

gatsby-plugin-sharp and gatsby-plugin-image doesn't support SVGs or GIFs (check: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/10297#issuecomment-444419483)

As you pointed out, there's no GatsbyImageData because Gatsby's transformers and sharps (gatsby-transformer-sharp but especially gatsby-plugin-sharp) doesn't support SVG. As they are not able to interpret SVG assets, they are not able to create the GraphQL nodes.

That said, there are multiple ways of loading an SVG in a React/Gatsby project:

Creating a component that returns the SVG directly.
Using gatsby-plugin-react-svg: follow Import SVG as a component in Gatsby for more details

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 05 '22 at 10:56

You can't render SVG files with Gatsby Image, but you don't need to.

You could use gatsby-plugin-svgr-loader (I like it more than gatsby-plugin-react-svg but they do essentially the same):

import Icon from "./path/assets/icon.svg";

// ...

<Icon />;

In this case the plugin is configured to process svg files from a path matching /assets/

{
    resolve: 'gatsby-plugin-svgr-loader',
    options: {
        rule: {
          include: /assets/
        }
    }
}

The other way around is to write svg code directly in your component:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" className="h-6 w-6" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth={2}>
  <path strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" d="M15 17h5l-1.405-1.405A2.032 2.032 0 0118 14.158V11a6.002 6.002 0 00-4-5.659V5a2 2 0 10-4 0v.341C7.67 6.165 6 8.388 6 11v3.159c0 .538-.214 1.055-.595 1.436L4 17h5m6 0v1a3 3 0 11-6 0v-1m6 0H9" />
</svg>

The above example is a bell icon exported as jsx from heroicons

How to render svg files with Gatsby Image?

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