React
A flexible icon family for React
Overview
The document discusses the transition from the phosphor-react package to @phosphor-icons/react, highlighting improved performance and a smaller bundle size. It emphasizes the drop-in replacement ease due to unchanged APIs. The legacy package will continue to receive maintenance but won't be updated with new icons. The installation process, usage tips, props information, and context usage in styling icons are also covered.
Features
- Improved Performance: @phosphor-icons/react offers enhanced performance.
- Smaller Bundle Size: The new version boasts a significantly smaller bundle size.
- Easy Replacement: No API changes make replacing the legacy package straightforward.
- Support for Tree-shaking: Phosphor supports tree-shaking to include only necessary icon code.
- Props Usage: Icon components accept a variety of props like color, size, weight, mirrored, and alt text.
- Context Utilization: Icon styling can be efficiently managed using React Context.
- Composability: Components allow for arbitrary SVG elements as children for enhanced customization.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Vite
Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
