pie-icons-webc
Shared PIE Icon Components built using Lit Web Components.
This package provides the PIE icon set as importable web components, to make sure that icons are used in accordance with PIE sizing guidelines.
This package takes the icon SVGs from the pie-icons package and compiles them into Lit web components which can be imported into any web application.
Installation
To add the module to your project:
yarn add @justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc
Usage
Vanilla JavaScript
Importing a single icon
The recommended approach for registering a single icon is to import it from its individual entry point.
import '@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/IconCalendarFilledLarge.js';
The rest of the code does not directly reference an IconCalendarFilledLarge
object, but the custom element has still been registered in the browser.
It can now be used inside your HTML template (as long as your JavaScript file is being loaded!).
<div>
<icon-calendar-filled-large></icon-calendar-filled-large>
<div>
Alternatively, you can import the class, which extends HTMLElement
(via LitElement
).
import { IconCalendarFilledLarge } from '@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/IconCalendarFilledLarge.js';
function renderIcon() {
const iconElement = new IconCalendarFilledLarge();
document.body.appendChild(iconElement);
}
Importing multiple icons
The recommended approach for importing multiple icons is to import them one-by-one to keep your application lightweight and performant.
import '@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/IconHeart.js';
import '@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/IconHeartFilled.js';
<div>
<icon-heart></icon-heart>
<icon-heart-filled></icon-heart-filled>
</div>
Whilst it is possible to import all of the icons at once, this is not recommended as it will bloat and slow down your application.
Similarly, it is also not recommended to import individual icons from the package's main entrypoint, because it is likely that all icons will still be registered as custom elements in the browser.
You may also encounter issues with tree-shaking if you import an object but don't use it.
Lit components
Importing and using an icon inside a Lit web component is very straightforward.
import '@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/IconAppRestaurant.js';
export class MyAmazingComponent extends LitElement {
render () {
return html`
<h2>
This is a heading
<icon-app-restaurant size="xl"></icon-app-restaurant>
</h2>`;
}
}
React
Each icon has a separate entrypoint for use in React applications. This uses our pie-wrapper-react
package.
import { IconAlertTriangleLarge } from "@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/react/IconAlertTriangleLarge.js";
import { IconCalendar } from "@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/react/IconCalendar.js";
export default function App() {
return (
<div className="App">
<IconAlertTriangleLarge fill={PIE_ALIAS_COLOR_TOKEN} />
<IconCalendar />
</div>
);
}
Vue
Note that you don't need to register the icons as Vue components, because they aren't!
<template>
<div>
<icon-alert-triangle-large></icon-alert-triangle-large>
<icon-calendar></icon-calendar>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import '@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/IconAlertTriangleLarge.js';
import '@justeattakeaway/pie-icons-webc/dist/IconCalendar.js';
</script>
Props
size
Icons are made available in different size variants:
- regular
- large, when its name has the
Large
suffix
A regular icon's default size is xs
and can use one of the following pre-defined values for size
: xs
, s
, m
, l
, xl
, and xxl
. You can learn more about regular icon sizes here.
A large icon's default (and minimum) size
is 32
. Values larger than the minimum must be multiples of 8
, otherwise the default size will be used. You can learn more about large icon sizes here.
Example:
<icon-alert-triangle size="s"></icon-alert-triangle>
<icon-alert-triangle-large size="80"></icon-alert-triangle-large>
Browser support
The component extends @justeattakeaway/browserslist-config-pie package for the list of browsers to support.
Contributing
Before starting, please read our contributing guide.
Adding new icons
Icons should be added as SVGs to the main pie-icons package and published, before simply incrementing the dependency of pie-icons
in the pie-icons-webc
package, to generate the new set of Web Components.
The PIE icon set is managed by our PIE Design System team. New icon requests should go through them to ensure that they meet our standards and follow our guidelines. Please reach out on the (internal) #help-designsystem
Slack channel.
Building the module
Run yarn build --filter=pie-icons-webc
from the root of the monorepo.
Icon library
You can view the full icon library on our documentation site.
Bundling
When we build the icons, we run a plugin for Rollup named rollup-plugin-visualizer
. This generates a file named stats.html
in the root of the package. This file can be viewed in the browser to visualise the bundled Javascript and better understand what contributes to the size of the final build output.