Using a well-designed, consistent icon pack, developers can save valuable time and effort searching for appropriate icons. A good icon pack offers a wide range of icons that cover various categories, so you have the perfect icon for any situation.
Criteria for the Best Icon Pack
Let's establish the criteria for deciding on the best icon pack for React Js development.
Icon Variety: A perfect icon pack should meet all of your icon requirements. If you use one primary icon pack but have to use icons from another, the design will be inconsistent.
Customization: It's essential for an icon pack to have the ability to customize icons, such as changing colors or sizes, to ensure proper integration with your app design.
Compatibility: The icon pack should be compatible with React Js, React Typescript, Figma, SVG, and IconJar and provide easy integration with popular frameworks and libraries.
Community Support: An active community around the icon pack ensures ongoing development, bug fixes, and support for any issues that may arise.
Hugeicons Pro: Your Ultimate Icon Library for Design and Development
Hugeicons Pro is an all-in-one icon pack designed specially for React Js developers. It offers a vast collection of high-quality icons that are easily customizable to fit your application's design. With Hugeicons Pro, you can effortlessly add visually appealing icons to your React project.
Features of Hugeicons Pro:
Extensive Icon Library: React Icons Pro offers a massive library of 25000+ icons, covering 57 categories across 5 styles. This ensures that you'll find the perfect icon for any scenario. Additionally, if you are unable to locate your desired icon, Hugeicons Pro offers custom icon request, which will be provided promptly.
Customization Options: Hugeicons Pro allows developers to customize icons to match their application's design. You can easily adjust the color, size, and style of the icons.
Easy Integration: The Hugeicons Pro NPM CLI allows developers to download and manage Hugeicons Pro as source code. The CLI currently supports code export for SVG, React, and React TypeScript, with support for other languages coming soon.
Community Support: Hugeicons Pro provides a welcoming Discord community that ensures prompt and trouble-free assistance.
Web App: Hugeicons Pro offers a web app, which is the go-to resource for both designers and developers. You can quickly access the best icon library and boost your workflow with simple SVG icon copy and paste.
Figma Plugin: Using the Figma Plugin you can quickly find suitable SVG icons for your design and drag and drop the icons into your Figma project.
IconJar: Hugeicons Pro also integrates with IconJar to easily import and organize their SVG icons within the IconJar app. This integration accelerates the design process by providing an effortless workflow for accessing and using the huge icon library offered by Hugeicons Pro.
How to use Hugeicons Pro icon library as a source code :
Getting started
Install hugeicons-pro using npm or yarn.
Using npx (doesn't add as a dependency):
npx hugeicons-pro@latest
npx allows you to run NPM commands without adding them as dependencies. Note that hugeicons-pro manages your license key for you so you only need to login once, even if you use the npx command.
Using npm (adds as a developer dependency):
Use npm to install hugeicons-pro as a local dependency. If you work with a team, this is the recommended approach so that team members can more easily manage Hugeicons Pro.
npm i --save-dev hugeicons-pro@latest
Using yarn (adds as a developer dependency):
yarn add hugeicons-pro@latest --dev
Login
To access Hugeicons Pro, run the hugeicons login command. Follow the steps to enter your license key.
Note that you only need to login once per computer, even if you use the npx command.
List icons
To know which icons to download, you can use the following commands to list variants, categories, and icons.
hugeicons list variants
hugeicons list categories
hugeicons list icons
Hugeicons Pro has 25,000 icons so you will likely want to install them by variant, category, or by icon.
Get icons
Once you know what variants, categories, and icons you want to download, you can use the following commands to get icons as source code.
hugeicons get --outdir=<directory> --variant=<variant> --category=<category> --language=<language> hugeicons get --outdir=<directory> --variant=<variant> --icon=<icon> --language=<language>
Note you can install more than more category or icon at a time.
hugeicons get --outdir=<directory> --variant=<variant> --category=<category-1> --category=<category-2> --language=<language> hugeicons get --outdir=<directory> --variant=<variant> --icon=<icon-1> --icon=<icon-2> --icon=<icon-3> --language=<language>
Note that --outdir, --variant, and --language are required.
Currently supported languages are:
svgreact-jsxreact-tsx
Examples
Download to src/hugeicons, variant stroke, category Add Remove Delete as React TypeScript:
hugeicons get --outdir=src/hugeicons --variant=stroke --category=add-remove-delete --language=react-tsx
Download to src/hugeicons, variant stroke, icons add-01 and add-02 as React TypeScript:
hugeicons get --outdir=src/hugeicons --variant=stroke --icon=add-01 --icon=add-02 --language=react-tsx
Upgrade to Hugeicons Pro
If you aren't already a customer, you can currently access all stroke icons for free (3,500 icons). To upgrade to hugeicons Pro and get access to 25,000 icons, run the hugeicons upgrade command. This will attempt to open the Hugeicons Pro website where you can purchase a license. After purchase, you will receive a Gumroad license key in your email. This is the license key you enter when you run the hugeicons login command.
