iconify/README.md

What is Iconify?

Iconify is the most versatile icon framework.

• Unified icon framework that can be used with any icon library.
• Out of the box includes 80+ icon sets with more than 70,000 icons.
• Embed icons in HTML with SVG framework or components for front-end frameworks.
• Embed icons in designs with plug-ins for Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD.
• Add icon search to your applications with Iconify Icon Finder.

For more information visit https://iconify.design/.

Iconify version 1

If you are looking for Iconify version 1, check out https://github.com/iconify/iconify/tree/iconify1

This repository contains the new version, completely rewritten using modern development process.

Iconify monorepo

This repository is a big monorepo that contains several implementations of Iconify icon framework.

There are two types of Iconify implementations:

• Implementations that rely on icon packages.
• Implementations that rely on Iconify API.

Implementations: without API

These Iconify implementations require the developer to provide icon data and expect that icon data to be included in the bundle.

Examples: Iconify for React, Iconify for Vue.

They are easy to use and do not require an internet connection to work, similar to other React/Vue components.

Implementations: with API

Iconify is designed to be easy to use. One of the main features is the Iconify API.

Iconify API provides data for over 70,000 icons! API is hosted on publicly available servers, spread out geographically to make sure visitors from all over the world have the fastest possible connection with redundancies in place to make sure it is always online.

Why is API needed?

When you use an icon font, each visitor loads an entire font, even if your page only uses a few icons. This is a major downside of using icon fonts. That limits developers to one or two fonts or icon sets.

Unlike icon fonts, Iconify implementations that use API do not load the entire icon set. Iconify only loads icons that are used on the current page.

This makes it possible to have an unlimited choice of icons!

Iconify API provides icon data to Iconify SVG framework and other implementations that rely on Iconify API.

Available packages

There are several Iconify implementations included in this repository:

Implementation	Usage	with API	without API
SVG Framework	HTML	+	+
React component	React	+	+
Vue 3 component	Vue 3	+	+
Vue 2 component	Vue 2	+	+
Svelte component	Svelte/Sapper	+	+

Other packages:

• Iconify types - TypeScript types used by various implementations.
• Iconify utils - common files used by various Iconify projects (including tools, API, etc...).
• Iconify core - common files used by various implementations (code specific to components and SVG framework).
• React demo - demo for React component. Run npm start to start demo.
• Next.js demo - demo for React component with Next.js. Run npm run build to build it and npm start to start demo.
• Vue 3 demo - demo for Vue component. Run npm run dev to start demo.
• Vue 2 demo - demo for Vue component. Run npm run dev to start demo.
• Svelte demo - demo for Svelte component. Run npm run dev to start demo.
• Sapper demo - demo for Sapper, using Svelte component on the server and in the browser. Run npm run dev to start the demo.
• Browser tests - unit tests for SVG framework. Run npm run build to build it. Open test.html in browser (requires HTTP server).

Legacy packages

Unfortunately Lerna does not support several versions of the same package. Because of that, some packages were moved from "packages" to "archive". This applies only to packages that were replaced by newer packages that aren't backwards compatible (and packages that rely on those packages).

Legacy packages:

• React with API - React component with API support. It has been merged with react package in newer version.
• React with API demo - demo for legacy react-with-api package. Run npm start to start demo.

Installation

This monorepo uses Lerna to manage packages.

First you need to install Lerna:

npm run install

To install dependencies in all packages, run

npm run bootstrap

This will install all dependencies and create symbolic links to packages.

If links stop working for some reason, run npm run link to fix links.

If you want to re-install dependencies, run npm run clean to clear all repositories (press "Y" to continue), then npm run bootstrap to install everything again.

Documentation

Documentation for all packages is available on Iconify documentation website:

• SVG framework documentation.
• Components documentation.

Licence

Iconify is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and GPL 2.0 licence. You may select, at your option, one of the above-listed licences.

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0

This licence does not apply to icons. Icons are released under different licences, see each icon set for details. Icons available by default are all licensed under some kind of open-source or free licence.

© 2020, 2021 Iconify OÜ