What is snap.svg?

Snap.svg is a JavaScript library for working with SVG graphics on the web, created by Adobe's web platform team. SVG, short for Scalable Vector Graphics, is a way of describing pictures using shapes and math rather than a fixed grid of pixels, which means the images stay sharp at any size. The library gives web developers a set of ready-made tools for drawing, changing, and animating these graphics directly in a web page, and the README describes it as aimed at the modern web. The README points to the project site at snapsvg.io for the full story. There are several ways to add it to a project. You can install it through package managers called Bower or npm, or you can download the finished file by hand. The download comes in two forms: a minified version, which is compressed to load faster, and an uncompressed version that is easier to read while developing. Both live in a folder named dist. Using it in a plain web page is simple. You add one script tag that points at the library file, and the README states that no other scripts are needed. For projects built with the webpack bundler, the README gives the extra configuration required to load Snap correctly and shows how to import it inside a module. The rest of the README is aimed at people who want to build the library from source or contribute to it. Building uses a tool called Grunt, and the page lists the terminal commands to install the dependencies and produce the output files. Tests live in a test folder and can be run in a browser or through a tool called PhantomJS. To contribute, the maintainers ask you to sign a contributor agreement, fork the repository, make your changes on a branch, and open a pull request against the dev branch.