The react-icons package provides a large collection of icons from various icon libraries that can be easily used in React applications. It allows developers to include icons using React components, which can be styled and manipulated like any other React component.

What are react-icons's main functionalities?

Importing and using an icon

This feature allows you to import an icon from a specific icon library (in this case, Font Awesome) and use it as a React component in your application.

import { FaBeer } from 'react-icons/fa';

function App() {
  return <h3> Lets go for a <FaBeer />? </h3>;
}

Styling icons

Icons can be styled using inline styles or CSS classes, just like any other React component. This code sample demonstrates inline styling to change the color and size of the icon.

import { FaBeer } from 'react-icons/fa';

function App() {
  return <FaBeer style={{ color: 'blue', fontSize: '50px' }} />;
}

Combining icons with other components

React-icons can be easily combined with other components, such as buttons from a UI library like React Bootstrap. This allows for more complex and visually appealing components.

import { FaBeer } from 'react-icons/fa';
import { Button } from 'react-bootstrap';

function App() {
  return (
    <Button variant='primary'>
      Order a beer <FaBeer />
    </Button>
  );
}

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React Icons

Include popular icons in your React projects easily with react-icons, which utilizes ES6 imports that allows you to include only the icons that your project is using.

Installation (for standard modern project)

yarn add react-icons
# or
npm install react-icons --save

example usage

import { FaBeer } from "react-icons/fa";

function Question() {
  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 react-icons you import from.

For example, to use an icon from Material Design, your import would be: import { ICON_NAME } from 'react-icons/md';

Installation (for meteorjs, gatsbyjs, etc)

Note This option has not had a new release for some time. More info https://github.com/react-icons/react-icons/issues/593

If your project grows in size, this option is available. This method has the trade-off that it takes a long time to install the package.

yarn add @react-icons/all-files
# or
npm install @react-icons/all-files --save

example usage

import { FaBeer } from "@react-icons/all-files/fa/FaBeer";

function Question() {
  return (
    <h3>
      Lets go for a <FaBeer />?
    </h3>
  );
}

Icons

Icon Library	License	Version	Count
Circum Icons	MPL-2.0 license	1.0.0	288
Font Awesome 5	CC BY 4.0 License	5.15.4-3-gafecf2a	1612
Font Awesome 6	CC BY 4.0 License	6.4.2	2025
Ionicons 4	MIT	4.6.3	696
Ionicons 5	MIT	5.5.4	1332
Material Design icons	Apache License Version 2.0	4.0.0-90-g1ea21d5429	4341
Typicons	CC BY-SA 3.0	2.1.2	336
Github Octicons icons	MIT	18.3.0	264
Feather	MIT	4.29.1	287
Lucide	ISC	v4.11.0-15-g7493227d	1215
Game Icons	CC BY 3.0	12920d6565588f0512542a3cb0cdfd36a497f910	4040
Weather Icons	SIL OFL 1.1	2.0.12	219
Devicons	MIT	1.8.0	192
Ant Design Icons	MIT	4.3.1	789
Bootstrap Icons	MIT	1.11.1	2716
Remix Icon	Apache License Version 2.0	3.5.0	2537
Flat Color Icons	MIT	1.0.2	329
Grommet-Icons	Apache License Version 2.0	4.11.0	635
Heroicons	MIT	1.0.6	460
Heroicons 2	MIT	2.0.18	876
Simple Icons	CC0 1.0 Universal	9.20.0	2753
Simple Line Icons	MIT	2.5.5	189
IcoMoon Free	CC BY 4.0 License	d006795ede82361e1bac1ee76f215cf1dc51e4ca	491
BoxIcons	CC BY 4.0 License	2.1.4	1634
css.gg	MIT	2.1.1	704
VS Code Icons	CC BY 4.0	0.0.35	439
Tabler Icons	MIT	2.40.0	4836
Themify Icons	MIT	v0.1.2-2-g9600186	352
Radix Icons	MIT	@radix-ui/react-icons@1.3.0-1-g94b3fcf	318
Phosphor Icons	MIT	2.0.2	7488
Icons8 Line Awesome	MIT	1.3.1	1544

You can add more icons by submitting pull requests or creating issues.

Configuration

You can configure react-icons props using React Context API.

Requires React 16.3 or higher.

import { IconContext } from "react-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

Migrating from version 2 -> 3

Change import style

Import path has changed. You need to rewrite from the old style.

// OLD IMPORT STYLE
import FaBeer from "react-icons/lib/fa/beer";

function Question() {
  return (
    <h3>
      Lets go for a <FaBeer />?
    </h3>
  );
}

// NEW IMPORT STYLE
import { FaBeer } from "react-icons/fa";

function Question() {
  return (
    <h3>
      Lets go for a <FaBeer />?
    </h3>
  );
}

Ending up with a large JS bundle? Check out this issue.

Adjustment CSS

From version 3, vertical-align: middle is not automatically given. Please use IconContext to specify className or specify an inline style.

Global Inline Styling

<IconContext.Provider value={{ style: { verticalAlign: 'middle' } }}>

Global `className` Styling

Component

<IconContext.Provider value={{ className: 'react-icons' }}>

CSS

.react-icons {
  vertical-align: middle;
}

TypeScript native support

Dependencies on @types/react-icons can be deleted.

Yarn

yarn remove @types/react-icons

NPM

npm remove @types/react-icons

Contributing

./build-script.sh will build the whole project. See also CI scripts for more information.

Development

yarn
cd packages/react-icons
yarn fetch  # fetch icon sources
yarn build

Add/Update icon set

First, check the discussion to see if anyone would like to add an icon set.

https://github.com/react-icons/react-icons/discussions/categories/new-icon-set

The SVG files to be fetched are managed in this file. Edit this file and run yarn fetch && yarn check && yarn build.

https://github.com/react-icons/react-icons/blob/master/packages/react-icons/src/icons/index.ts

Preview

Note The project is not actively accepting PR for the preview site at this time.

The preview site is the react-icons website, built in Astro+React.

cd packages/react-icons
yarn fetch
yarn build

cd ../preview-astro
yarn start

Demo

The demo is a Create React App boilerplate with react-icons added as a dependency for easy testing.

cd packages/react-icons
yarn fetch
yarn build

cd ../demo
yarn start

Why React SVG components instead of fonts?

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.

react-svg-morph

Licence

MIT

Icons are taken from the other projects so please check each project licences accordingly.

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