Sketch Preview Loader

A webpack loader for .sketch files that loads previews

Table of contents:

Installation
Usage
Example
Roadmap
Inspiration

Installation

To use the loader install it from NPM by doing:

$ npm install sketch-preview-loader --save-dev

Usage

You first have to use add the loader rule to you webpack.config.js. You have to chain the file-loader loader before the sketch-preview-loader, see below an example:

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.(sketch)$/i,
        use: [
          'file-loader',
          {
            loader: 'sketch-preview-loader',
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  },
};

Once you have got the loader setup you can import sketch files. Here is an example of how to load a sketch file and render it as an img

import myDesignSrc from './design.sketch';

const MySketchPreview = () => (
  <div>
    <img src={myDesignSrc} />
  </div>
);

Example

To see a working example go into the example directory. You can run the example from the root by running:

npm run example

Roadmap

There is a list of features that I would like to add eventually. A non-exhaustive list of future imporvements:

Expose metadata
Add working tests
Make the image file have a non .sketch extension
Make the loader chain with an image file loader for optimitations

Inspiration

sketch-loader is a great loader for loading the information encoded in a sketch file as a javascript object. However, it does not load the previews.
This gist is an excellent explanation of how to get the information out of a sketch file
The webpack docs do a really good job of explaning how to write a loader
file-loader was a really good starting point for a first loader