SVGAware simplifies SVG management in Laravel applications by eliminating duplicated markup and removing the need to edit complex SVG code directly.

It allows you to render SVGs through Blade components, directives, or a Facade — with full Tailwind CSS styling support.

Install

Install via Composer:

composer require bypickering/laravel-svgaware

To publish the available config and add items to the purge list:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=svgaware-config

Getting Started

Place your .svg files inside:

${projectRoot}/resources/svg

You can change this location using the SVGAWARE_ROOT variable in your .env file.

Usage

Blade Component

SVGAware provides a Blade component:

<x-svg src="icon-name" />

You do not need to include the .svg extension. The extension is automatically appended using the SVGAWARE_APPEND configuration value.

Blade Directive

You can use the directive instead:

@svg(icon-name)

Facade

If you are not using Blade components, a SvgAwareFacade is also available.

use Pickering\SVGAware\Facades\SvgAwareFacade;

$svgHTML = Svg::render('icon_name');

Dynamic Tags

SVGAware allows you to define placeholder tags inside your SVG files. This allows you to pass arbitrary values into a specific location in the SVG document.

<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
    {tag_name_1}
    <circle cx="100" cy="100" r="50" fill="blue" />
    {tag_name_2}
</svg>

You may not include spaces when defining tags:

✅: {tag_name} 
❌: { tag_name }

Used In Blade Component

<x-svg src="icon-name" tag_name="Some Value"/>

Used In Directive

@svg(icon-name, ['tag_name' => 'Some Value'])

Used In Facade

// With attributes and tags
$svgHTML = SvgAwareFacade::render('icon_name', [
    'class' => 'h-5 w-5 text-blue-500',
    'tag_name' => 'dynamic_value'
]);

Attribute Forwarding

SVGAware will forward attributes and inject them into the root svg element allowing you the flexibility to add any attributes you need.

Take note when naming your dynamic tags. If you pass a name that does not match a dynamic tag it will be injected as an attribute in the svg element.

$svgHTML = SvgAwareFacade::render('icon_name', [
    'id' => "svg_id",
    'class' => 'h-5 w-5 text-blue-500',
    'fill' => "fill-blue-500",
    'stroke' => "stroke-green-500",
    'tag_name' => 'dynamic_value',
]);

Purge Behavior

SVGAware automatically cleans SVG attributes to make them easier to style — especially when using Tailwind CSS.

By default, the following attributes are removed from the root <svg> element:

• width
• height
• fill

You can customize this list inside: config/svgaware.php by modifying the purge_list array.

Root Directory

The root directory defines where SVGAware looks for SVG files.

By default, it is set to ${projectRoot}/resources/svg, and you can change it using:

• .env → SVGAWARE_ROOT
• config/svgaware.php → root

Configuration

Environment Variables

Name	Default	Description
SVGAWARE_ROOT	${projectRoot}/resources/svg	Root directory where SVG files are stored.
SVGAWARE_COMPONENT	svg	Name of the Blade component used to render SVGs.
SVGAWARE_DIRECTIVE	svg	Name of the Blade directive used to render SVGs.
SVGAWARE_APPEND	.svg	String appended to SVG names when resolving files (e.g., icon → icon.svg).
SVGAWARE_PREPEND	""	String prepended to SVG names when resolving files.
SVGAWARE_PURGE	true	Determines whether SVG cleanup functionality runs automatically.

Config File

Located at: config/svgaware.php and maps all .env variables and defines the purge_list.

The purge_list is the list of attributes that will be deleted from the root svg tag.

return [
    'root'       => env('SVGAWARE_ROOT', resource_path('svg')),
    'component'  => env('SVGAWARE_COMPONENT', 'svg'),
    'directive'  => env('SVGAWARE_DIRECTIVE', 'svg'),
    'append'     => env('SVGAWARE_APPEND', '.svg'),
    'prepend'    => env('SVGAWARE_PREPEND', ''),
    'purge'      => env('SVGAWARE_PURGE', true),
    'purge_list' => ['width', 'height', 'fill'],
];

Requirements

SVGAware requires:

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Laravel 10 or higher

License

SVGAware is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

© 2026 Pickering

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software.

See the LICENSE file for the full license text.