| ▲ | Show HN: Make SVGs interactive in React with 1 line(svggles.vercel.app) | ||||||||||||||||
| 53 points by shantingHou 2 days ago | 19 comments | |||||||||||||||||
Hey HN I built svggles (npm: interactive-illustrations), a React utility that makes it easy to add playful, interactive SVGs to your frontend. It supports mouse-tracking, scroll, hover, and other common interactions, and it's designed to be lightweight and intuitive for React devs. The inspiration came from my time playing with p5.js — I loved how expressive and fun it was to create interactive visuals. But I also wanted to bring that kind of creative freedom to everyday frontend work, in a way that fits naturally into the React ecosystem. My goal is to help frontend developers make their UIs feel more alive — not just functional, but fun. I also know creativity thrives in community, so it's open source and I’d love to see contributions from artists, developers, or anyone interested in visual interaction. Links: Website + Docs: svggles.vercel.app GitHub: github.com/shantinghou/interactive-illustrations NPM: interactive-illustrations Let me know what you think — ideas, feedback, and contributions are all welcome | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | paulirish 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I love playful interaction too, but you can get all this for free: SVGs are natively interactive. Here's your demo in 45 lines of SVG and CSS: https://codepen.io/paulirish/pen/gbOZXJp | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | yomielu 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Awesome work! Not sure if this is intentional but it looks like the (lack of) contrast on the text vs background color is making it hard to read anything on the landing page. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | westurner 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
MDN docs > SVG and CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorials/S... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | simlevesque 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
This example doesn't seem to work, I hover it and nothing happens, in incognito, chrome latest: https://svggles.vercel.app/?tab=Documentation%2FHover%2FAnim... | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | westurner 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Src: https://github.com/shantinghou/interactive-illustrations | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tracker1 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Depending on what you're doing, I find SVG manipulation in React to come out pretty well. I've used it for overlays on scanned documents and basic charts without much issue at all. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | khaki54 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Did you consider using lottie and its interactivity? What were the tradeoffs? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hersko 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Your landing page made my 9 year old laugh. Good work! | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | abdulyki 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Looks cool but isn't this just using gsap and having a wrapper around it? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ckemere 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Doesn't seem to do anything in firefox either. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | 1ilit 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
looks cool, you should probably gitignore some of the dirs there though | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | recursive 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
It seems unusual to make the package name so different from the project name. Also, the instructions for converting svg to react component work sometimes. It won't work if your svg has any style attributes for example. React also warns on some valid svg attributes, such as this one. The given code example is missing a right angle brace on the `<svg` line. | |||||||||||||||||
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