--- title: Animated icons for React, without the setup pain | daily.dev description: @animateicons/react is a new npm package providing animated Lucide-style icons for React applications. It aims to simplify adding motion details to buttons,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/animated-icons-for-react-without-the-setup-pain-qhmn56kcp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Animated icons for React, without the setup pain | daily.dev og:description: @animateicons/react is a new npm package providing animated Lucide-style icons for React applications. It aims to simplify adding motion details to buttons,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/animated-icons-for-react-without-the-setup-pain-qhmn56kcp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qHMN56KCP.png og:image:alt: Animated icons for React, without the setup pain og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Animated icons for React, without the setup pain **[Open Source](https://daily.dev/sources/opensourcesquad)** · [@avijit07x](https://daily.dev/avijit07x) · 1 min read · 261 upvotes · 26 comments ## Summary @animateicons/react is a new npm package providing animated Lucide-style icons for React applications. It aims to simplify adding motion details to buttons, menus, dashboards, and landing pages without building custom SVG animations from scratch. Installation is via pnpm/npm and usage follows a straightforward named import pattern from the package. ## Content I built **@animateicons/react**, an npm package for animated Lucide-style icons in React. The goal is simple: make it easy to add small motion details to buttons, menus, dashboards, landing pages, and product UIs without building custom SVG animations from scratch. ## Install ``` pnpm add @animateicons/react ``` ## Usage ``` import { EyeIcon } from "@animateicons/react/lucide"; export default function Example() { return ; } ``` ## Useful for - React apps - Dashboards - Landing pages - Design systems - Component libraries ## Links - Docs: https://animateicons.in/icons/docs - Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@animateicons/react - GitHub: https://github.com/Avijit07x/animateicons I’d appreciate feedback on the package API, import experience, and docs clarity. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@math\_krish** · 7 upvotes > Absolutely love the collection! **@anshikagarg** · 3 upvotes > Thanks for giving useful information.. That's very informative for me **@saad786** · 2 upvotes > Looks cool and amazing. Will definitely try it. **@timwhite06** · 1 upvotes >  **@cesarhigashi** · 1 upvotes > I'm so gonna share this with my team, we use font awesome and lucide icons so this would be a game changer --- Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#svg](https://daily.dev/tags/svg) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/animated-icons-for-react-without-the-setup-pain-qhmn56kcp) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/animated-icons-for-react-without-the-setup-pain-qhmn56kcp","headline":"Animated icons for React, without the setup pain","text":"@animateicons/react is a new npm package providing animated Lucide-style icons for React applications. 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