🎨 SVG to PNG / JPEG / ICO (Favicon) Converter

Hi there👋 This is a free online tool that allows you to convert SVG files to PNG, JPEG, ICO (Favicon) images.

It is very simple and fast - it runs only in your browser and allows you to customize image width and height💨 Try it out here: https://svg-to-png-jpeg-favicon.vercel.app

💡 Story

While trying to do some svg to images conversion, I couldn't find any simple online tool that allows me to do so🤯 This was frustrating since the latest Web APIs - URL API and Canvas API have made it very easy to convert files to different image types on a modern browser. So I went ahead and coded out this simple tool myself and shared it out there with others who might also experience the frustration🔥

⚙️ Implementation

This tool is open-source - you can use it for anything and read about its full implementation in /pages/index.tsx. The core utility is the Canvas Class, which is only ~100 lines of JavaScript code. At high level, it uses the below Web APIs to perform the svg conversion:

1. URL.createObjectURL to read the svg file and convert it to a DOMString
2. CanvasRenderingContext2D.drawImage to render a svg image on a canvas without losing resolution
3. HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL to convert the svg file on canvas to be different image types based on user selection - .png .jpeg .ico

Since Web APIs are bundled into a browser, you can run this tool entirely offline on any modern day browser.

🍔 Tech Stack

*Vercel is used over GitHub page to deploy this tool because it has better SEO support with SSG and can be potentially helpful for others to find it on Google

💻Local Testing

git clone https://github.com/xitanggg/svg-to-png-jpeg-favicon.git
cd ./svg-to-png-jpeg-favicon
npm install
npm run dev

Finally, open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to use the tool locally 🚀