Choose from thousands of popular open source SVG icon packs and add them to your React projects easily with @meronex/icons.
Meronex icons is a react-icons fork, read here for credits and fork motivation.
Preview site at icons.meronex.com
Features
- Easily add an SVG icon as React component and modify the size, color, style, etc
- Includes the most popular open source SVG icon sets
- Import each icon independently preventing blowing up the bundle size
- Fast search across all the icon packs
Principles
- Include as many useful and popular icon packs, we don't want to juggle between multiple libraries
- Maintain backward compatibility, we don't want to refactor all our icons path due to a release
- Do not assume tree shaking and allow both default and named exports, this should be left as choice
- Do not bloat the node_modules folder and try to keep it within an acceptable range
- Keep a reference to documentation site for each major release, we don't want to be forced to update because docs changed
- Keep the project alive and ensure longevity, refactoring icons is neither fun nor productive
Check here.
yarn add @meronex/iconsnpm install @meronex/icons --saveDefault import (use if you don't have tree shaking)
import FaBeer from '@meronex/icons/fa/FaBeer';
class Question extends React.Component {
render() {
return <h3> Lets go for a <FaBeer />? </h3>
}
}Named import (use with tree shaking)
import { FaBeer } from '@meronex/icons/fa';
class Question extends React.Component {
render() {
return <h3> Lets go for a <FaBeer />? </h3>
}
}View the documentation for further usage examples and how to use icons from other packages. NOTE: each Icon package has it's own subfolder under @meronex/icons you import from.
For example, to use an icon from Material Design, your import would be: import ICON_NAME from '@meronex/icons/md/ICON_NAME';
You can configure react-icons props using React Context API.
Requires React 16.3 or higher.
import { IconContext } from "@meronex/icons";
<IconContext.Provider value={{ color: "blue", className: "global-class-name" }}>
<div>
<FaFolder />
</div>
</IconContext.Provider>| Key | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
color |
undefined (inherit) |
|
size |
1em |
|
className |
undefined |
|
style |
undefined |
Can overwrite size and color |
attr |
undefined |
Overwritten by other attributes |
title |
undefined |
Icon description for accessibility |
From version 3, vertical-align: middle is not automatically given. Please use IconContext to specify className or specify an inline style.
<IconContext.Provider value={{ style: { verticalAlign: 'middle' } }}>Component
<IconContext.Provider value={{ className: 'react-icons' }}>CSS
.react-icons {
vertical-align: middle;
}Dependencies on @types/@meronex/icons can be deleted.
yarn remove @types/@meronex/iconsnpm remove @types/@meronex/iconsyarn
yarn submodule # fetch icon sources
cd packages/react-icons
yarn buildThis project uses Conventional Commits format for the commit messages.
"build",
"chore",
"ci",
"docs",
"feat",
"fix",
"improve",
"perf",
"refactor",
"revert",
"style",
"test",
The preview site is the meronex-icons website, built in NextJS.
cd packages/react-icons
yarn build
cd ../preview
yarn startThe demo is a Create React App boilerplate with react-icons added as a dependency for easy testing.
cd packages/react-icons
yarn build
cd ../demo
yarn startFrom the main directory (where this file is located) run the following command:
cd packages/react-icons git submodule add --name <name> <git-repo-url-for-the-new-icon-set> packages/react-icons/src/icons/<name>
yarn build yarn start
Add the name, URL, and the license link to the table in the ##Icons section of this file.
Keep the list in alphabetical order.
Add the object with the following structure:
{
id: "xy", // Two-letter id
name: "e.g. Xenon Yellow Icons", // The full icon set name
contents: [
{
files: path.resolve(__dirname, "<relative-path-to-git-submodule>/<path-to-svg-icons>/<filter>"),
formatter: name => `Xy${name}` // So that all icon names from this set will start with "Xy"
}
],
// URL of the github repo
projectUrl: "https://github.com/xy/xy-icons",
license: "Apache License Version 2.0", // License type
licenseUrl: "http://www.apache.org/licenses/" // URL of the license definition
}to the icons array.
SVG is supported by all major browsers. With react-icons, you can serve only the needed icons instead of one big font file to the users, helping you to recognize which icons are used in your project.
This is a fork of react-icons and was created specifically to resolve the bundling size issue #154, see here.
It was meant to be used temporary until the fix PR merged upstream however due to the lack of activity at the react-icons repo, I have decided to put publish it as it could perhaps save others the patching time and effort I had to go through.
As I said that was initially meant for internal consumption, the bundle issue was a show stopper for us, I've submitted a PR which is not merged yet and this issue has been open for two plus years. I don't have time/desire to redo the preview site, so I just shared what I have.
Feel free to fork edit and host else where if you need to as I did.
I've merged some open pull requests, added icons and fixed some performance issue with the preview site, more specifically:
-
Added Icon Sets
- flag-icon-css
- IcoMoon Free
- Simple Icons
- Logos
- VS Code Icons
- Remix Icons fill
- Heroicons
- BoxIcons
-
Merged open PRs
-
Improved the preview site
- Show the icon set next to the titles
- Improve search performance by caching results
- Copy the entire absolute URL so it can be easily inserted
Yes, this used internally in profit generating busienss and will be maintained long-term.
I'd rather have the changes merged upstream as I don't prefer fragmented react community, however this fork was essential due low activity in the main repo. My view on this that if you publish open source, then you've to be responsible for the longevity of it when others depend on it and willing to offer a hand, otherwise don't publish at all.
- forked from react-icons
- react-svg-morph
MIT
- Icons are taken from the other projects so please check each project licences accordingly.