How to inject SVG icon sprites in Angular component HTML DOM?

Question

I am building an Angular application (Angular 4/5/6) and would like to use SVG sprites in my component template.

Question: Assuming I already have my S

Answer 1

I was in your same boat today with designers pushing back about the svg font. I also did not want to move the icon def out of the node_modules because it would change over time. I came up with a solution.

You need to first create an angular icon component, then do something like this:

import { Component, OnInit, Input } from '@angular/core';
declare const require;
@Component({
  selector: 'my-icon',
  templateUrl: './my-icon.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./my-icon.component.scss']
})
export class IconComponent implements OnInit {

  constructor() { }

  @Input() icon: string = "";
  @Input() x: string = "0";
  @Input() y: string = "0";
  @Input() fillColor: string = "black";
  @Input() strokeColor: string = "black";
  @Input() height: string = "";
  @Input() width: string = "";
  private baseUrl: string = require("../../../../../node_modules/path/to/defs.svg") + "#beginning-of-iconset-";

  svgUrl: string = "";

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  ngAfterViewInit() {
    setTimeout(()=>{
      this.svgUrl = this.baseUrl + this.icon;
    },0);

  }

}

And then, in the html:

I'm still working on scaling the solution as the width and height attributes don't work as expected. You can also expand on the inputs as I know I will.

Hope that helps.