--- title: You Might Not Need react-native-svg | daily.dev description: The maintainers of react-native-svg explain when you actually need the library versus when alternatives are better. The core issue: react-native-svg creates a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-might-not-need-react-native-svg-tdcjfv2ry twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You Might Not Need react-native-svg | daily.dev og:description: The maintainers of react-native-svg explain when you actually need the library versus when alternatives are better. The core issue: react-native-svg creates a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-might-not-need-react-native-svg-tdcjfv2ry og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tdCJfV2RY.png og:image:alt: You Might Not Need react-native-svg og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # You Might Not Need react-native-svg **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The maintainers of react-native-svg explain when you actually need the library versus when alternatives are better. The core issue: react-native-svg creates a full React component tree and native view hierarchy for every SVG element, with no caching and potential memory leaks on iOS. For static SVGs, Expo Image is the recommended alternative — it delegates rendering to native libraries (Glide on Android, SDWebImage on iOS) with a single component in the React tree, though it loads asynchronously and doesn't support animated SVG tags. Other alternatives covered include Lottie/Rive for animations, react-native-skia for filter support with Reanimated integration (but with memory overhead), WebView, icon fonts, and react-native-vector-image. The library remains the right choice when you need to animate or dynamically control individual SVG elements via React state and Reanimated. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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