SVG to JSX Converter
Why You Pasted an SVG into a Converter
You downloaded logo.svg from your design team. You could drop it into an img tag, but then you'd lose the ability to dynamically change colors or animate individual paths. The usual fix: paste the SVG source into a JSX converter, swap hyphenated attributes for camelCase, drop the result into a component.
What Happens Under the Hood
The converter walks the SVG DOM and produces a framework-specific component:
- React:
stroke-widthbecomesstrokeWidth,classbecomesclassName. - Vue 3: attributes stay kebab-case but bindings get
:prefixes. - React Native:
svgbecomesSvg,pathbecomesPathfrom react-native-svg.
Style attributes are parsed: style="fill:red;stroke=black" converts to a JSX style object. XML declarations and DOCTYPE are stripped because they have no meaning inside a component.
When You Need This
You downloaded an icon pack. You need a themeable logo. You're building an icon library where each icon accepts a color prop. You have Illustrator SVGs with editor metadata to remove. You're migrating icons from one framework to another.
Practical Tips
- SVGO before converting reduces file size 20-60%.
- viewBox over explicit width/height makes the SVG scalable.
- Strip IDs when the same SVG appears multiple times on a page.
- Make fill/stroke props (rather than hardcoding) for theme support.
- Add a
<title>inside the SVG and wire aria-labelledby for accessibility.
FAQ
Q: Why strokeWidth instead of stroke-width? A: JSX uses camelCase because stroke-width would be a syntax error in JavaScript. Q: XML declaration in output? A: No. Those are stripped -- they have no meaning inside a component. Q: Multi-layer Illustrator SVGs? A: Nested groups, clip paths, masks, and defs sections all work. Complex layer effects like opacity masks may need manual adjustment.