Sketch to SVG

Exports layers from a .sketch file to an svg, without needing Sketch installed.

Usage

/// At the moment you need to pass in a sketch-constructor layer.
const { Sketch } = require('sketch-constructor')

/// Require the library
const svg = require('sketch-to-svg')

// Open the sketch file and pass in the layer you want to extract
let absolutePath = `${process.cwd()}` + "/mysketchfile.sketch"
Sketch
        .fromFile(absolutePath)
        .then(sketch => {
          /// Get the layer you want to extract - this example extracts the first layer in the first page
          let layer = sketch.getPages()[0].layers[0]

          let options = { sketchFilePath: absolutePath, optimizeImageSize: true, optimizeImageSizeFactor: 3 }

          return svg.createFromLayer(layer, options)
        })
        .then(icon => {
          // For this example, we just dump the svg to the console
          console.log(icon.svg)
        })
        .catch(err => {
            console.log("Failed to create svg:", err)
        })

You can see this example in action by checking out the repo and running node example.js.

Development

This is written in Typescript, there's an npm script (build) which will build the library into the dist folder, and a script (npm start) which will run through a few test/example sketch files, exporting them into /out.

If things are going really badly, you can run npm run clobber to start from the start again. This will remove all built code, and all node modules. You'll then have to run npm install again :)