Mastering SVG: Ace web animations, visualizations, and vector graphics with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Rob Larsen

Sep 2018 · Packt Publishing Ltd

Ebook

312

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About this ebook

Take the plunge and develop cross-browser-compatible and responsive web designs with SVGKey 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

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

Who this book is for

This book is for web developers and designers looking to add animation to their projects. Some experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is required.

About the author

Rob Larsen is an experienced frontend engineer, team lead, and manager. He is an active writer and speaker on web technology with a special focus on the continuing evolution of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. He is a co-author of Professional jQuery, the author of Beginning HTML and CSS, and the author of The Uncertain Web. He's also an active member of the open source community as a maintainer of several popular projects.

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