I came across this nice technique for keeping your markup in a Vue app nice and clean, but still inlining the SVGs at compile-time with webpack. Because SVGs are xml, you can treat them like any other piece of markup with html-loader and as a result, you get nicely integrated SVG content. 

<div :key="type"  v-html="require(`!html-loader!@/assets/${type}-line.svg`)"></div>

Works super well and has the added benefit of side-stepping any preloading of SVGs you might need to do.