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I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Post by bdcravens »

jeremyjh wrote: post #23
recursive wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The name "React" in the title implies that this library has a dependence on React. I almost wrote it off for my purposes before I realized that it really doesn't have anything to do with React.

Yet there are other developers who are unaware the possibilities of non-react web development or how to use any resource that isn't installed with NPM. Tough call from a marketing perspective.

I would think the basics of HTML resources is a minimal bar for calling yourself a "developer" (at that stage you're still a student or an apprentice)

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Post by masum_parvej »

olivergregory wrote: post #31

I don't get how I can download all (free) icons locally, to use in another framework than react. Anyone could bulk download without having to favorite each icon independently?

Didn't think of it this way. In this case, maybe there's a way.

You can use this free Figma file: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1336391869817535178

and export all the icons as SVGs.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Post by mdwelsh »

masum_parvej wrote: post #27
mdwelsh wrote: post #24

These look great. The page says "Thousands of designers, developers, and content creators use HugeIcons Pro". Is this accurate? The project seems to have only about 493 downloads a week on NPM, and 194 GitHub stars. I would have expected a lot more given the number of people you claim are using the library. (Edit: For clarification, the NPM stats refer to the number of times the library was fetched from NPM's servers…

Hugeicons Pro has more than 50k regular users. - Figma plugin has 23k users ( https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1209922740177393208/ ) - 40k Per month web-app users ( https://hugeicons.com/icons ) (you can check Similarweb) Also we have free available Figma file with more than 20k users, Wordpress plugin, IconJar users and more. Thanks for asking and happy to clarify this.

Whoa! Cool. I didn't see that earlier - nice.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Post by rjbwork »

bdcravens wrote: post #32
jeremyjh wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet there are other developers who are unaware the possibilities of non-react web development or how to use any resource that isn't installed with NPM. Tough call from a marketing perspective.

I would think the basics of HTML resources is a minimal bar for calling yourself a "developer" (at that stage you're still a student or an apprentice)

You can call yourself whatever you can get away with. There are a whole lot of people out there that have never slung anything but React-flavored JS being called developers and being paid to do it. The industry needs these technicians too, I guess.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Post by technion »

bdcravens wrote: post #32
jeremyjh wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet there are other developers who are unaware the possibilities of non-react web development or how to use any resource that isn't installed with NPM. Tough call from a marketing perspective.

I would think the basics of HTML resources is a minimal bar for calling yourself a "developer" (at that stage you're still a student or an apprentice)

Unfortunately it's a pretty common issue in react forums. There was a discussion recently about there being no way to create s3 upload urls in react. I mean of there are several npm modules, but non have react hooks so nothing was viewed as usable.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Post by masum_parvej »

smusamashah wrote: post #22
masum_parvej wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, drew them in Figma. You can see some of the drawing processes here: https://twitter.com/huge_icons

All 3800+ of them? That's a number of icons per day for one person.

Started building this product in 2020, so it’s actually been 4 years+.

Re: I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)

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Post by simple10 »

masum_parvej wrote: post #29
simple10 wrote: post #20

These are great! Nice work. I was a little confused on the pricing page[1]. Since the icons are free to download, is the main reason to pay to get access to Figma files? https://hugeicons.com/pricing

Let me explain: There are 7 styles of icons, totaling 28,000+ icons currently, with an additional 8,000+ icons nearly ready. Of these, 3,800 icons+ (4k apprx.) are completely free. They are free in the web app, free in the Figma file, free in the plugins,free on npm (almost everywhere). Hope this helps.

Ah, thanks. That definitely clarifies it.

For the pro license, am I able to build a tool that allows my users to search and select SVG icons to use in their webpages created in my app? My app is a website builder. I'd love to enable support for hugeicons. But maybe this is a gray area use case for the pro license?

https://docs.hugeicons.com/faqs/license-questions

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