We’re first going to walk through using a package called react-icons that will allow us to easily import icons from popular icon sets like Font Awesome right into our app. This makes them extra flexible for web usage, especially when making experiences responsive. Typically when using SVG, you can take advantage of its smaller size compared to larger image files that might be required to deliver the same high resolution.Īdditionally, since we’re defining SVG as paths, they can scale as large or as small as we want. This plays a part in the small file size. If you open an SVG file on your computer, you might be surprised to find that it’s all code!

It’s an open standard that was created by W3C to provide a better way to add images to the web. It’s a file format based on a markup language similar to XML that allows developers and designers to create vector-based images using path definitions.

Part 2: Manually adding SVG files to a React component.Part 1: Adding SVG icons with react-icons.How can we add icons using SVG to our React apps to improve our visual communication? This could be for categorization, an action, or even a warning. Instead we encourage you to release your own icons in your own library, and create your own packages for any other frameworks you'd like to see supported.Icons are a way to visually communicate concepts and meaning without the use of words. We're not accepting contributions for new icons or adding support for other frameworks like Svelte or SolidJS. While we absolutely appreciate anyone's willingness to try and improve the project, we're currently only interested in contributions that fix bugs, for example things like incorrect TypeScript types, or fixing an icon that's been exported with a fill instead of a stroke, etc. The 24x24 outline icons can be imported from the 24x24 solid icons can be imported from and the 20x20 solid icons can be imported from use an upper camel case naming convention and are always suffixed with the word Icon.īrowse the full list of icon names on UNPKG → Contributing

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