CLI-UI: Icon Generator

[khawarizmus]

What problem does this feature solve?

Having the possibility to provide a high-resolution icon and generate all the different icon resolutions for different devices to be used in both the manifest.json and index.html

What does the proposed API look like?

Input: a simple file picker that can point to a png file format and should throw a warning if the picture is not of a high enough resolution

Output: by default, it will point to public\img\icons.
here an example just for a getting an idea: https://www.favicon-generator.org/

[Akryum]

I think it could be a 3rd party plugin.

[yyx990803]

Yeah, image processing is going to be a big dependency and we don't want to force users who don't need this feature to download mbs of unrelated code.

[kandrejevs]

@yyx990803 it is a dev dependency and pretty much everyone rather would download few MB of dependencies than manually create 14 differently sized icons.

[alexcroox]

What did the author use to generate the files inside public/icons? I've tried various favicon generators but not one has saved out matching file name conventions or sizes yet.

[dev117uday]

I recently came across the same problem, so i create a small python script to generate icons.

[Github] https://github.com/dev117uday/learning_python/blob/master/scripts/Vuejs%20PWA%20icon%20generator.ipynb

it's not perfect, you have to do this manually, but i hope it will help any one in the future.
remember to create a folder called 'icons' where all the auto generate icons will be stored