iconify VS icons

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/

Not sure if you already are using, but bootstrap has a lot of readymade icons for a project like this.

Bootstrap Icons

You can take the svg element from here. In the filter section type emoji and choose your desired emoji and copy the HTML. It will look like this

💡 This step is optional, but I wanted to use an icon for the close dialog button, which you'll see in a minute, but if you want to follow along, head to https://icons.getbootstrap.com/ ,scroll all the way down, copy the CDN Link, and paste it in the head of index.html

I wouldn't say it is more or less difficult, it is just a lot of work that somebody or something has to do.

Just to take an example, that Excel clone is going to need a whole lot of icons which have to come from somewhere. If you're not picky about what they look like you can find some icon set like

https://icons.getbootstrap.com/

which I picked for my RSS reader because I am using Bootstrap CSS already which itself is a low-effort choice because I use Reactstrap at work. Somebody pickier could look at free and paid icon sets or hire a graphic designer which would involve a significant amount of talking about how you want it made.

I am mainly a coder but my exact responsibilities have varied a lot from place to place. YOShInOn, my RSS reader and intelligent agent, is a one-man show which eliminates the overhead of communicating about things but means I don't get the benefit of other people's insight. I worked at an academic library where my first assignment was to take a very detailed Photoshop comp and make HTML that looked exactly like it. In other places nobody told me how it was supposed to look, or it was obvious from the get-go that I was supposed to add a new field to this form and it is going to have look like the rest of the form. I worked at a web development company where I worked on about 70 web sites in 8 months and we did projects very fast and cheap and forms that we made from scratch always followed a style guide we called "spider forms" which meant we could get better-than-average results without spending much time thinking. Where I work now I don't make decisions about the database schema except when I do, other places I was basically a DBA.

So the point is a "coder" can have varying levels of responsibility for UX, business rules: they can get very vague descriptions of what it supposed to happen and they figure it out, or I can get very detailed storyboards for everything. One way or another a lot of design and planning work has to get done.

A "low code" or "no code" system, whatever technology it is based on, is going to have to have a lot of decisions already made for you within some particular domain. Most of the worlds' business applications involve filling out forms and updating a database. But you might want a toolkit for making games that look like The Legend of Zelda with very little coding, or maybe something for making applications that put objects into your space with a Hololens or Apple Vision.

You could bust out apps really quickly if you take the defaults in a domain but if you want to make something really special the sky is the limit for the talent involved. Take a look at the credits for a major video game for instance.

Bootstrap Icons are packaged up and published to npm. We only include the processed SVGs in this package—it's up to you and your team to implement. Read our docs for usage instructions.