SVG Icons

This is a template repository used to quickly scaffold a React SVG Icon library.

Installation

This repository isn't published. It exists as a template repository for you to use, populate with SVGs, and maintain an Icon library!

If you use this template repository, please ensure that the .browserslistrc and svgo.config.js match defaults that make you and/or your company happy. Additionally, you'll want to change the import path defining ProductionBundleIconsMap in both src/index.test.js and src/index.stories.tsx to match the name field of your package.json.

Contributing new icons to the library

Process

• Put your SVG icon into src/svgs
• Ensure that the svg includes a title element as the first child of the svg element.
  • Its content should be a human-readible description of the SVG (this is for accessibility)
• Add the correct type-safe mapping in src/index.ts (follow the pattern)
• yarn build && yarn test -u to updates snapshots
• yarn storybook to go and see the result of your work in Storybook.

Usage

Importing

import { Alert, Basketball } from 'svg-icons';

Customizing

Every component accepts all props that you'd expect an inlined svg to accept in a React environment. This includes className, style, fill, width, height, etc.

import { Alert } from 'svg-icons';

<Alert fill="#FFF" width="20px" height="20px" />

Considerations when deciding if your icon belongs here

1. If you want the icon to express meaning by itself (without text)...

Please render the SVG inline into your application. Be sure that aria-hidden="false" and also apply an id to the <title> aspect of the SVG. Lastly, give the value of that id to the attribute aria-labelledby on the actual <svg>.

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2. If you don't want the icon to be customizable (fill, stroke, etc.) via props...
3. If you want the paths of the icon to be controllable in animations...

This repository is for uniformly behaving, customizable icon sets. Please render the SVG inline into your application OR please integrate react-svg-loader into your application, steal our svgo config, and simply manage the implementation yourself.

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4. If you want the paths of the icon to be customizeable...

You'll want to make a custom component in your application. Please render the SVG inline into your application OR please integrate react-svg-loader into your application, steal our svgo config, and simply manage the implementation yourself.

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5. If the icon has a predefined fill attribute on the actual <svg>...

Note that fill is transformed to be currentColor. All you'll need to do is ensure the icon is rendered in a parent element whose CSS property color is defined.