React Icons

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

Installation

npm install react-icons --save

Usage

import FaBeer from 'react-icons/lib/fa/beer';

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

If you are not using es6 compiler like babel or rollup.js, it's possible to include icons from the compiled folder ./lib. Babel by default will ignore node_modules so if you don't want to change the settings you will need to use files from ./lib

var FaBeer = require('react-icons/lib/fa/beer');

var Question = React.createClass({
    render: function() {
        return React.createElement('h3', null,
            ' Lets go for a ', React.createElement(FaBeer, null), '? '
        );
    }
});

You can include icons directly from react-icons using import FaBeer from 'react-icons', but you should wait to Webpack 2 implement dead code elimination based on es6 imports.

Also it's possible to include the whole icon pack from:

import * as FontAwesome from 'react-icons/lib/fa'

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

or import multiple icons from the same pack

import {MdCancel, MdChat, MdCheck} from 'react-icons/md';

every icon pack is in their own folder

• Material Design Icons => ./md
• FontAwesome => ./fa
• Typicons => ./ti
• Github Octicons => ./go
• Ionicons => ./io

to view all icons visit docs

Also, to view and search for the necessary icons you can use the tool Icon Viewer.

Icons

Currently supported icons are:

• Material Design Icons by Google https://www.google.com/design/icons/ (licence: CC-BY 4.0)
• Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fontawesome.io (licence: SIL OFL 1.1)
• Typicons by Stephen Hutchings - http://typicons.com (licence: CC BY-SA)
• Github Octicons icons by Github https://octicons.github.com/ (licence: SIL OFL 1.1)
• Ionicons by Ionic Framework - http://ionicons.com (licence: MIT)

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

Configuration

You can configure react-icons props in context.

class HigherOrderComponent extends Component {

    static childContextTypes = {
        reactIconBase: PropTypes.object
    };

    getChildContext() {
        return {
            reactIconBase: {
                color: 'tomato',
                size: 24,
                style: {
                    ...
                }
            }
        }
    }

    render() {
        ...
    }
}

Context is overriden inline.

<Icon size={30} color='aliceblue' style={{ ... }} />

Contribution

Just add svg icons in ./icons/:icons-name folder and create pull request again develop after merge I will generate React components because this process is not fully automated yet.

svg ?

Svg is supported by all major browsers.

Why es6 import and not fonts?

With react-icons, you can send icons that are specified instead of one big font file to the users, helping you to recognize which icons are used in your project.

Using create-react-app?

create-react-app tries to load the icons as files by default, rather than running through Babel. You may therefore see an erorr message similar to "You may need an appropriate loader...". The recommended workaround is to import from lib instead:

import FaBeer from 'react-icons/lib/fa/beer';

Related

• react-svg-morph

Licence

MIT

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