react-icons

What is react-icons?

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>
  );
}

Other packages similar to react-icons

mdi-react

This is a set of Material Design Icons for React. It is similar to react-icons in that it provides a large set of icons, but it is focused solely on Material Design Icons, whereas react-icons offers icons from multiple libraries.

react-fontawesome

This package is a React component for Font Awesome icons. It is similar to react-icons, but it is dedicated to Font Awesome icons only. react-icons, on the other hand, includes Font Awesome among many other icon libraries.

README

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';

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 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)

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";
class Question extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <h3> Lets go for a <FaBeer />? </h3>
  }
}

Icons

Icon Library	License	Version	Count
Font Awesome	CC BY 4.0 License	5.15.4
7d3d774145ac38663f6d1effc6def0334b68ab7e	1612
Ionicons 4	MIT	4.6.3	696
Ionicons 5	MIT	5.5.0	1332
Material Design icons	Apache License Version 2.0	4.0.0-12-g63c5cb3060
63c5cb306073a9ecdfd3579f0f696746ab6305f6	3650
Typicons	CC BY-SA 3.0	2.1.2	336
Github Octicons icons	MIT	8.5.0	184
Feather	MIT	4.28.0	286
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	4.2.1	789
Bootstrap Icons	MIT	1.5.0	1846
Remix Icon	Apache License Version 2.0	2.5.0	2271
Flat Color Icons	MIT	1.0.2	329
Grommet-Icons	Apache License Version 2.0	4.6.2	615
Heroicons	MIT	1.0.4	460
Simple Icons	CC0 1.0 Universal	5.16.0	2024
IcoMoon Free	CC BY 4.0 License	d006795ede82361e1bac1ee76f215cf1dc51e4ca	491
BoxIcons	CC BY 4.0 License	2.0.9	757
css.gg	MIT	2.0.0	704
VS Code Icons	CC BY 4.0	0.0.23	383
Tabler Icons	MIT	1.68.0	1978

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';

class Question extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return <h3> Lets go for a <FaBeer />? </h3>
    }
}

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

class Question extends React.Component {
    render() {
        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

Development

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

Preview

The preview site is the react-icons website, built in NextJS.

cd packages/react-icons
yarn build

cd ../preview
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 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.

Related Projects

• react-svg-morph

Licence

MIT

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