Bug: [5.0] SVGs cannot be imported (not as components, but regular import)

Describe the bug

When importing a SVG in a regular manner (not as a component):

import Logo from './logo.svg'

There is an error upon yarn start:

SyntaxError: unknown: Namespace tags are not supported by default. React's JSX doesn't support namespace tags. You can set `throwIfNamespace: false` to bypass this warning.

This seems like a regression from CRA 4 which didn't have this problem. I understand the error is relevant if I tried to import it as a component, but that's not what's happening here.

Did you try recovering your dependencies?

yes

Which terms did you search for in User Guide?

SyntaxError: unknown: Namespace tags are not supported by default

Environment

Environment Info:

  current version of create-react-app: 4.0.3
  running from /Users/alamothe/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/create-react-app

  System:
    OS: macOS 11.6.1
    CPU: (16) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 14.18.2 - /usr/local/opt/node@14/bin/node
    Yarn: 3.2.0-rc.7 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.14.15 - /usr/local/opt/node@14/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 96.0.4664.110
    Edge: 96.0.1054.53
    Firefox: 94.0.2
    Safari: 15.1
  npmPackages:
    react: ^17.0.2 => 17.0.2 
    react-dom: ^17.0.2 => 17.0.2 
    react-scripts: 5.0.0 => 5.0.0 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: 4.0.3

Import SVG file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<!-- Creator: CorelDRAW 2021 (64-Bit) -->
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" width="725px" height="144px" version="1.1" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd"
viewBox="0 0 311.23 61.63"
 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
 xmlns:xodm="http://www.corel.com/coreldraw/odm/2003">
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  <metadata id="CorelCorpID_0Corel-Layer"/>
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 </g>
</svg>

The expected behavior

Lie in CRA4, there shouldn't be an error.

Does this import work?

import { ReactComponent as Logo } from "./Logo.svg";

I should add that importing { ReactComponent as x} is the approach I've always taken, based on the documentation for importing SVGs

The same error happens for me even when importing with { ReactComponent as x}.

I’ve tried to minimize my SVG file with scour but the import still fails.

@alamothe

I am also unable to use an SVG import with { ReactComponent as x } or a regular direct import.

My SVG contains CDATA which resulted in this error:
Module build failed (from ./node_modules/@svgr/webpack/lib/index.js): Error: Expected node, got
followed by a large block of CDATA.

Removing the CDATA block from the SVG file resulted in the same error @alamothe reported.

I was using one of the unDraw SVGs and got this error.

But I noticed that I modified it using Inkscape and the modified version wasn't working but the original version downloaded from the site worked.

So I took a look at the files and saw that the original one was way more compressed/compact so I decided to take the one that wasn't working and compress it and see if that worked. It works!

Potential solution:

Compress your SVGs using this site

It worked for me. After compressing it using the site (default settings) I stopped having this error.
And saved a few bytes!

👍 if it works for you!

Guys, if possible let's keep this bug for regular import:

import Logo from './logo.svg'

This is quite different than importing as a component (both have different trade-offs).

For regular import, CRA shouldn't be trying to make it as a component in the first place, it is to be used inside img tag.

Same issue. Is there a possible fix yet?

Same issue. Is there a possible fix yet?

I provided 1 above. it might work for you. read up

Same issue. Is there a possible fix yet?

I used svgo as a node CLI workaround.

Did the trick for me. YMMV.

Upgrade react-scripts to 5.0.1 (#505)

I fixed this issue by modifying the naming scheme of the attributes within the svg file to camel case. For example:

xmlns:xlink becomes xmlnsXlink

xml:space becomes xmlSpace

etc.

After resolving this syntax error, the importing { ReactComponent as x} approach mentioned above successfully rendered the svg. For reference, the fix can be found originally on this StackOverflow answer.

This worked for me, thank you!

This worked for me. 😁
Before

After

Migrate to CRA5 + webpack 5 (#2323)

This is still an issue for me. I'm trying to upgrade from CRA 4 -> 5 but encountering this problem.
Yes I know 2 known workarounds is:

compress it by removing the namespaces using camelCase
using the !file-loader!./img.svg

But in my case, I am receiving my SVG from my company's private npm repository so I'm unable to modify the SVG. I am also unable to solve it using the 2nd option with the file-loader, because who knows, it just don't seem to work on npm modules I guess?

I wish this bug would be resolved. Using workarounds don't feel like a solution. Namespaces are a part of the SVG-specification so I believe it should be supported.

How can I help?

@SimpleCookie

@SimpleCookie Unfortunately I think the best option might be workaround number 3, which is to migrate away from CRA.

With the end of life here, this bug may never see a fix; instead getting entombed with the dead project.

@gaearon

I donʼt see any end-of-life notice on this project… Meta representative could put one here to be fair with all the users (or at least us).

excuses for bringing your attention here, @gaearon: any progress or at least plans to address this?

enable svgo, work for me

@huoguozhang

@huoguozhang: enable svgo, work for me

huh? not sure if i should bother to ask, where did you set that exactly…? 🤔 (looks at least like a repetition of mathburnham and Poyoman39 answers)

if you use Inkscape, an alternative to running the svg through a compressor is to save it as an "optimised svg": this worked for me.

@SimpleCookie

@SimpleCookie Unfortunately I think the best option might be workaround number 3, which is to migrate away from CRA.

With the end of life here, this bug may never see a fix; instead getting entombed with the dead project.

This is the solution we took. We migrated from CRA.
I'm happy with the result.

Migrate to CRA5 + webpack 5 (#2323)

This worked for me.

Animated SVG is working as expected.

In my case, I used animated SVG exported from Svgator that includes CDATA.

I have not done any changes to SVG file like remove/modifying CDATA.
I have not done any changes to webpack config or so.

Simply tried the code from below pic.

Environments:
"react": "^18.2.0",
"react-dom": "^18.2.0",
"react-scripts": "^5.0.1",

This worked for me.
In my svg file.
I did this -
bx:guide TO bxGuide
xmlns:bx TO xmlnsBx
bx:fonts TO bxFonts
Basically, change into camelCase.

Compress SVG files with SVGO to satisfy react/babel

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