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> what percentage of React users are making interactive SVGs

Every single app I worked on for the past 5 years did. `mui` icons are SVG for example, and it's common practice to embed SVG as components to avoid the HTTP requests overhead and allow for theming through props.

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Most people who embed svgs aren’t looking to make them interactive though. I think I’ve attached event handlers to internal elements in an svg maybe once in my entire career.

Things like the sparkline charts on npmjs (e.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm ) are interactive SVGs. I think they're pretty common for data visualizations of all kinds

Sure, but data visualisations make up a tiny percentage of websites.

That’s a great example of what I’m talking about: it would be the perfect place to bring in a react-svg module. Vast majority of sites don’t use sparkline so the SVG stuff is unused.

That’s not what I’m talking about though: those aren’t interactive. You could dangerouslySetInnerHTML with them (arguably you should, it’s a waste of VDOM otherwise) and they’d be just fine.

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