heroicons VS iconify

We start with the toggle button. We want icons for this that we get from heroicons. Let’s create a new file in the ChannelList folder called Icons.tsx and paste the code for the icons here to have a solid separation:

7. Heroicons

Since we are on the mobile view we want to add a hamburger menu to toggle the links visibility. I am using heroicons. We use some basic react state to know whether or not the hambuger is open, and we conditionally render either the hamburger or an X.

Heroicons are SVG-based icons packaged by the creators of TailwindCSS. They come in two size variants, 20, which is suitable for small buttons and form elements, and a 24 size, that is useful for primary navigation buttons like call to action and hero sections. 24 size comes as solid and outline.

We have to install refine's support packages for React Table and React Hook Form. We are using Tailwind Heroicons for our icons, the Day.js library for time calculations and Recharts library to plot our charts for KPI data. So, run the following and we are good to go:

heroicons - Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.

These depedencies provide unstyled accessible components from headless ui, icons from heroicons and common hooks with typescript support.

To get started with our image modal implementation, i'll assume you already have a React project set up. For UI i’m using Tailwind CSS. But you can use any UI library as your wish. For the image cropping and rotating functionality, we'll be utilizing the react-easy-crop library. This library provides a simple and intuitive way to crop and interact with images and videos within a React component. We will also use the heroicons and classnames libraries in our tutorial. To install all the libraries and their dependencies, open your terminal and navigate to your project's directory. Run the following command:

Icons play a vital role in the web development. They guide us, convey messages, and enhance user experiences on numerous websites and applications. Whether you are an experienced developer or a beginner in web development, having a reliable source of high-quality icons is essential. This is where Iconify comes in, providing an extensive selection of icons that will breathe life into your projects.

https://iconify.design/ has been my go to for years, but I like the ability to customize the colors from the UI, although I personally use tailwind classes for my colors

Before explaining the whole code, it is worth saying that you can get all the icons used in this tutorial are from iconify

It was positioned absolutely to the parent container and was placed at the position where it is using -bottom-8 and left-[17%], the icon use there is from iconify

Svg Icons from Iconify.

Luckily, I found that in astro you can do it easily with the astro-icon package. This package uses Iconify, an icon library that combines dozens of different icon packs into one. The most interesting icon pack for me was the SVG Logos as it includes all logos for different tech companies, programming languages, etc. Now, adding these icons is as simple as:

I've been using https://iconify.design/