--- title: Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need —... description: Discover the power of React Icons, a comprehensive icon library for React developers. Learn how to install and use React Icons, and explore alternative icon... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-react-icons-may-be-the-only-icon-library-you-need-sitepoint-binrcqam3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need — SitePoint | daily.dev og:description: Discover the power of React Icons, a comprehensive icon library for React developers. Learn how to install and use React Icons, and explore alternative icon... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-react-icons-may-be-the-only-icon-library-you-need-sitepoint-binrcqam3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BInrCqAM3.png og:image:alt: Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need — SitePoint 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. # Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need — SitePoint **[SitePoint](https://daily.dev/sources/sitepoint)** · 8 min read · 20 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Discover the power of React Icons, a comprehensive icon library for React developers. Learn how to install and use React Icons, and explore alternative icon libraries like Material Icons and Font Awesome Pro. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ghost** · 2 upvotes > I kinda rather just getting single SVG from a lot of Icon libraries online (not as a npm package) and just put it in my code and import instead of installing package with 5,632 Dependencies **@haisan** · 1 upvotes > The brand voice must be conveyed even through the icons, so often not just any library will work correctly and have all the necessary icons. Even worse if you mix several libraries, there will be several icons with several different patterns. Designers would die with all this mess hahaha > > For personal and small projects, OK, but not for large projects. **@valdoryu** · 0 upvotes > Those icons looks so 2018 --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-react-icons-may-be-the-only-icon-library-you-need-sitepoint-binrcqam3) ```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":"TechArticle","headline":"Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need — SitePoint","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-react-icons-may-be-the-only-icon-library-you-need-sitepoint-binrcqam3","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-react-icons-may-be-the-only-icon-library-you-need-sitepoint-binrcqam3"},"datePublished":"2024-01-26T19:04:16.885Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"Discover the power of React Icons, a comprehensive icon library for React developers. 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