unplugin-icons

Access thousands of icons as components on-demand universally.

Features

• 🌏 Universal
  • 🤹 Any icon sets - ~150 popular sets with over 200,000 icons, logos, emojis, etc. Powered by Iconify.
  • 📦 Major build tools - Vite, Webpack, Rollup, Nuxt, Rspack, etc. Powered by unplugin.
  • 🚀 Major frameworks - Vanilla, Web Components, React, Vue 3, Solid, Svelte, and more. Contribute.
  • 🍱 Any combinations of them!
• ☁️ On-demand - Only bundle the icons you really use, while having all the options.
• 🖨 SSR / SSG friendly - Ship the icons with your page, no more FOUC.
• 🌈 Stylable - Change size, color, or even add animations as you would with styles and classes.
• 📥 Custom icons - load your custom icons to get universal integrations at ease.
• 📲 Auto Importing - Use icons as components directly in your template.
• 🦾 TypeScript support.
• 🔍 Browse Icons

vite-plugin-icons has been renamed to unplugin-icons, see the migration guide

Quick Start

Basic Usage

Import icons using the convention ~icons/{collection}/{icon} and use them as components. Auto importing is also supported.

React Example:

import IconAccessibility from '~icons/carbon/accessibility'
import IconAccountBox from '~icons/mdi/account-box'

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <IconAccessibility />
      <IconAccountBox style={{ fontSize: '2em', color: 'red' }} />
    </div>
  )
}

Vue Example:

<script setup>
import IconAccessibility from '~icons/carbon/accessibility'
import IconAccountBox from '~icons/mdi/account-box'
</script>

<template>
  <icon-accessibility />
  <icon-account-box style="font-size: 2em; color: red" />
</template>

Installation

Note: This package is ESM-only. Make sure your project uses ES modules ("type": "module" in package.json or .mjs file extensions).

Step 1: Install the Plugin

npm i -D unplugin-icons

Step 2: Install Icon Data

We use Iconify as the icons data source (supports 100+ icon sets).

[!TIP] ✨ VS Code Users: Install the Iconify IntelliSense extension for inlay preview, auto-completion, and hover information.

Option A: Install Full Collection (Recommended for flexibility)

npm i -D @iconify/json

This installs all icon sets (~120MB). Only icons you actually use will be bundled in production.

Option B: Install Individual Icon Sets

Install only the icon sets you need:

npm i -D @iconify-json/mdi @iconify-json/carbon

Option C: Auto Install (Experimental)

Let unplugin-icons automatically install icon sets when you import them:

Icons({
  autoInstall: true, // Auto-detects npm/yarn/pnpm
})

Examples

Check out the playgrounds page to try examples online in StackBlitz.

Available examples:

• Vite + Vue 3
• Vite + React
• Next.js
• Nuxt 4
• SvelteKit
• Astro
• And more...

Configuration

This section covers how to configure unplugin-icons for different build tools and frameworks.

Build Tools

// vite.config.ts
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    Icons({ /* options */ }),
  ],
})

// rollup.config.js
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/rollup'

export default {
  plugins: [
    Icons({ /* options */ }),
  ],
}

// webpack.config.mjs
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/webpack'

export default {
  /* ... */
  plugins: [
    Icons({ /* options */ }),
  ],
}

// nuxt.config.ts
export default {
  buildModules: [
    ['unplugin-icons/nuxt', { /* options */ }],
  ],
}

// nuxt.config.ts
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  modules: [
    ['unplugin-icons/nuxt', { /* options */ }]
  ],
})

import IconsResolver from 'unplugin-icons/resolver'
import ViteComponents from 'unplugin-vue-components/vite'

// nuxt.config.ts
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  modules: [
    'unplugin-icons/nuxt',
  ],
  vite: {
    plugins: [
      ViteComponents({
        resolvers: [
          IconsResolver({/* options */}),
        ],
      }),
    ],
  },
})

import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/rspack'

// rspack.config.mjs
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    // ...
    Icons({/* options */}),
  ]
})

// vue.config.mjs
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/webpack'

export default {
  configureWebpack: {
    plugins: [
      Icons({ /* options */ }),
    ],
  },
}

import { sveltekit } from '@sveltejs/kit/vite'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    sveltekit(),
    Icons({
      compiler: 'svelte',
    })
  ]
})

npm i -D @sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte

import { svelte } from '@sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    svelte(),
    Icons({
      compiler: 'svelte',
    }),
  ],
})

// next.config.mjs
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/webpack'

/** @type {import('next').NextConfig} */
export default {
  reactStrictMode: true,
  webpack(config) {
    config.plugins.push(
      Icons({
        compiler: 'jsx',
        jsx: 'react'
      })
    )

    return config
  }
}

import IconArrowRight from '~icons/dashicons/arrow-right.jsx';
                                                     // ^-- write `.jsx` to avoid
                                                     // https://github.com/antfu/unplugin-icons/issues/103
// ...some code later
<IconArrowRight />

// esbuild.config.js
import { build } from 'esbuild'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/esbuild'

build({
  /* ... */
  plugins: [
    Icons({
      /* options */
    }),
  ],
})

// astro.config.mjs
import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
  vite: {
    plugins: [
      Icons({
        compiler: 'astro',
      }),
    ],
  },
})

import Vue from '@astrojs/vue'
// astro.config.mjs
import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
  integrations: [
    Vue(),
  ],
  vite: {
    plugins: [
      Icons({
        compiler: 'vue3',
      }),
    ],
  },
})

Frameworks

Configure the compiler option based on your framework. Some frameworks may require additional peer dependencies.

Icons({ compiler: 'vue3' })

npm i -D @vue/compiler-sfc

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "unplugin-icons/types/vue"
    ]
  }
}

Icons({ compiler: 'jsx', jsx: 'react' })

npm i -D @svgr/core @svgr/plugin-jsx

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "unplugin-icons/types/react"
    ]
  }
}

Icons({ compiler: 'jsx', jsx: 'preact' })

npm i -D @svgr/core @svgr/plugin-jsx

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "unplugin-icons/types/preact"
    ]
  }
}

Icons({ compiler: 'solid' })

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "unplugin-icons/types/solid"
    ]
  }
}

Icons({ compiler: 'svelte' })

import 'unplugin-icons/types/svelte'

/// <reference types="svelte" />
/// <reference types="vite/client" />
/// <reference types="unplugin-icons/types/svelte" />

/// <reference types="unplugin-icons/types/svelte4" />

/// <reference types="unplugin-icons/types/svelte3" />

Icons({ compiler: 'astro' })

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "unplugin-icons/types/astro"
    ]
  }
}

Icons({ compiler: 'vue3' })

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "unplugin-icons/types/vue"
    ]
  }
}

Icons({ compiler: 'qwik' })

npm i -D @svgx/core

Icons({ compiler: 'jsx', jsx: 'qwik' })

npm i -D @svgr/core @svgr/plugin-jsx

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "unplugin-icons/types/qwik"
    ]
  }
}

Icons({ compiler: 'ember' })

import { ember, extensions } from '@embroider/vite'
import { babel } from '@rollup/plugin-babel'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    ember(),
    Icons({
      compiler: 'ember',
    }),
    babel({
      babelHelpers: 'runtime',
      extensions,
    }),
  ],
})

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": [
      "unplugin-icons/types/ember"
    ]
  }
}

import { compatBuild } from '@embroider/compat'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/webpack'

return compatBuild(app, Webpack, {
    packagerOptions: {
      webpackConfig: {
        plugins: [
          Icons({
            compiler: 'ember',
          }),
        ],
      },
    },
    // ...other options

Raw SVG Import

Available from v0.13.2+

Import icons as raw SVG strings by adding ?raw to the import path. Useful for embedding SVG directly in HTML templates.

Example (Vue 3):

<script setup lang='ts'>
import RawMdiAlarmOff from '~icons/mdi/alarm-off?raw&width=4em&height=4em'
import RawMdiAlarmOff2 from '~icons/mdi/alarm-off?raw&width=1em&height=1em'
</script>

<template>
  <!-- raw example -->
  <pre>
    import RawMdiAlarmOff from '~icons/mdi/alarm-off?raw&width=4em&height=4em'
    {{ RawMdiAlarmOff }}
    import RawMdiAlarmOff2 from '~icons/mdi/alarm-off?raw&width=1em&height=1em'
    {{ RawMdiAlarmOff2 }}
  </pre>
  <!-- svg example -->
  <span v-html="RawMdiAlarmOff" />
  <span v-html="RawMdiAlarmOff2" />
</template>

Custom Icons

Load your own custom icons and use them with the same universal API.

import { promises as fs } from 'node:fs'

// loader helpers
import { FileSystemIconLoader } from 'unplugin-icons/loaders'

Icons({
  customCollections: {
    // key as the collection name
    'my-icons': {
      account: '<svg><!-- ... --></svg>',
      // load your custom icon lazily
      settings: () => fs.readFile('./path/to/my-icon.svg', 'utf-8'),
      /* ... */
    },
    'my-other-icons': async (iconName) => {
      // your custom loader here. Do whatever you want.
      // for example, fetch from a remote server:
      return await fetch(`https://example.com/icons/${iconName}.svg`).then(res => res.text())
    },
    // a helper to load icons from the file system
    // files under `./assets/icons` with `.svg` extension will be loaded as it's file name
    // you can also provide a transform callback to change each icon (optional)
    'my-yet-other-icons': FileSystemIconLoader(
      './assets/icons',
      svg => svg.replace(/^<svg /, '<svg fill="currentColor" '),
    ),
  },
})

Then use as

import IconAccount from '~icons/my-icons/account'
import IconFoo from '~icons/my-other-icons/foo'
import IconBar from '~icons/my-yet-other-icons/bar'

💡 SVG Authoring Tips:

• To make your icons color adaptable, set fill="currentColor" or stroke="currentColor" in your SVG.
• Leave the height and width unspecified, we will set them for you.

Auto-Import with Resolver

When using auto-importing, register your custom collection names:

IconResolver({
  customCollections: [
    'my-icons',
    'my-other-icons',
    'my-yet-other-icons',
  ],
})

See the Vue 3 example for a complete setup.

External Collection Packages

Load icons from third-party packages that follow the Iconify format.

Requirements:

External packages must include an icons.json file in IconifyJSON format. See Exporting icon set as JSON package for details.

For example, you can use an-awesome-collection or @my-awesome-collections/some-collection to load your custom or third party icons:

// loader helpers
import { ExternalPackageIconLoader } from 'unplugin-icons/loaders'

Icons({ customCollections: ExternalPackageIconLoader('my-awesome-collection') })

When using with resolvers for auto-importing, remember you will need to tell it your custom collection names:

IconResolver({
  customCollections: [
    'my-awesome-collection',
  ],
})

You can also combine it with FileSystemIconLoader or with other custom icon loaders:

// loader helpers
import { ExternalPackageIconLoader, FileSystemIconLoader } from 'unplugin-icons/loaders'

Icons({
  customCollections: {
    ...ExternalPackageIconLoader('an-awesome-collection'),
    ...ExternalPackageIconLoader('@my-awesome-collections/some-collection'),
    ...ExternalPackageIconLoader('@my-awesome-collections/some-other-collection'),
    'my-yet-other-icons': FileSystemIconLoader(
      './assets/icons',
      svg => svg.replace(/^<svg /, '<svg fill="currentColor" '),
    ),
  },
})

See the Vue 3 example for a complete setup.

Icon Customization

Customize individual icons or entire collections using iconCustomizer in your config or query parameters when importing.

Precedence: Query params > iconCustomizer > default configuration

Works with all icon sources: custom loaders, inlined collections, and Iconify collections.

For example, you can configure iconCustomizer to change all icons for a collection or individual icons on a collection:

import { promises as fs } from 'node:fs'

// loader helpers
import { FileSystemIconLoader } from 'unplugin-icons/loaders'

Icons({
  customCollections: {
    // key as the collection name
    'my-icons': {
      account: '<svg><!-- ... --></svg>',
      // load your custom icon lazily
      settings: () => fs.readFile('./path/to/my-icon.svg', 'utf-8'),
      /* ... */
    },
    'my-other-icons': async (iconName) => {
      // your custom loader here. Do whatever you want.
      // for example, fetch from a remote server:
      return await fetch(`https://example.com/icons/${iconName}.svg`).then(res => res.text())
    },
    // a helper to load icons from the file system
    // files under `./assets/icons` with `.svg` extension will be loaded as it's file name
    // you can also provide a transform callback to change each icon (optional)
    'my-yet-other-icons': FileSystemIconLoader(
      './assets/icons',
      svg => svg.replace(/^<svg /, '<svg fill="currentColor" '),
    ),
  },
  iconCustomizer(collection, icon, props) {
    // customize all icons in this collection
    if (collection === 'my-other-icons') {
      props.width = '4em'
      props.height = '4em'
    }
    // customize this icon in this collection
    if (collection === 'my-icons' && icon === 'account') {
      props.width = '6em'
      props.height = '6em'
    }
    // customize this @iconify icon in this collection
    if (collection === 'mdi' && icon === 'account') {
      props.width = '2em'
      props.height = '2em'
    }
  },
})

or you can use query params to apply to individual icons:

<script setup lang='ts'>
import MdiAlarmOff from 'virtual:icons/mdi/alarm-off?width=4em&height=4em'
import MdiAlarmOff2 from 'virtual:icons/mdi/alarm-off?width=1em&height=1em'
</script>

<template>
  <!-- width=4em and height=4em -->
  <mdi-alarm-off />
  <!-- width=4em and height=4em -->
  <MdiAlarmOff />
  <!-- width=1em and height=1em -->
  <MdiAlarmOff2 />
</template>

See the Vue 3 example for a complete implementation.

Global Icon Transformation

Apply transformations to all custom icons during loading. Useful for adding default attributes like fill="currentColor".

Icons({
  customCollections: {
    // key as the collection name
    'my-icons': {
      account: '<svg><!-- ... --></svg>',
      /* ... */
    },
  },
  transform(svg, collection, icon) {
    // apply fill to this icon on this collection
    if (collection === 'my-icons' && icon === 'account')
      return svg.replace(/^<svg /, '<svg fill="currentColor" ')

    return svg
  },
})

Advanced Custom Icon Set Cleanup

When using this plugin with your custom icons, consider using a cleanup process similar to that done by Iconify for any icons sets. All the tools you need are available in Iconify Tools.

You can check this repo, using unplugin-icons on a SvelteKit project: https://github.com/iconify/tools/tree/main/%40iconify-demo/unplugin-svelte.

Read Cleaning up icons article from Iconify for more details.

Migration from vite-plugin-icons

If you're upgrading from vite-plugin-icons, follow these steps:

1. Update package.json:

{
  "devDependencies": {
-   "vite-plugin-icons": "*",
+   "unplugin-icons": "^0.7.0",
  }
}

2. Update your config file:

import Components from 'unplugin-vue-components/vite'
- import Icons, { ViteIconsResolver } from 'vite-plugin-icons'
+ import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'
+ import IconsResolver from 'unplugin-icons/resolver'

export default {
  plugins: [
    Vue(),
    Components({
      resolvers: [
        IconsResolver()
      ],
    }),
    Icons(),
  ],
}

3. Update import paths:

- import IconComponent from 'virtual:vite-icons/collection/name'
+ import IconComponent from '~icons/collection/name'

Note: The virtual:icons prefix still works in Vite, but ~icons is recommended for consistency across all build tools.

Options

Configure default styling and behavior for all icons:

Icons({
  // Icon sizing
  scale: 1.2,              // Scale factor relative to 1em (default: 1.2)
  
  // Default styling
  defaultStyle: '',        // CSS styles applied to all icons
  defaultClass: '',       // CSS classes applied to all icons
  
  // Compiler configuration
  compiler: null,         // Framework compiler: 'vue3', 'jsx', 'svelte', 'solid', etc.
  jsx: 'react',           // JSX framework: 'react' or 'preact' (when compiler: 'jsx')
  
  // Custom collections
  customCollections: {},  // See [Custom Icons](#custom-icons)
  
  // Advanced
  iconCustomizer: () => {}, // See [Icon Customization](#icon-customization)
  transform: undefined,   // See [Global Icon Transformation](#global-icon-transformation)
  autoInstall: false,    // Auto-install icon sets on import
})

Auto Importing

// vite.config.ts
import Vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'
import IconsResolver from 'unplugin-icons/resolver'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'
import Components from 'unplugin-vue-components/vite'

export default {
  plugins: [
    Vue(),
    Components({
      resolvers: [
        IconsResolver(),
      ],
    }),
    Icons(),
  ],
}

<template>
  <i-carbon-accessibility/>
  <i-mdi-account-box style="font-size: 2em; color: red"/>
</template>

// vite.config.ts
import AutoImport from 'unplugin-auto-import/vite'
import IconsResolver from 'unplugin-icons/resolver'
import Icons from 'unplugin-icons/vite'

export default {
  plugins: [
    AutoImport({
      resolvers: [
        IconsResolver({
          prefix: 'Icon',
          extension: 'jsx',
        }),
      ],
    }),
    Icons({
      compiler: 'jsx', // or 'solid'
    }),
  ],
}

export function Component() {
  return (
    <div>
      <IconCarbonApps />
      <IconMdiAccountBox style="font-size: 2em; color: red" />
    </div>
  )
}

Component Naming

Icons are auto-imported following this naming pattern:

{prefix}-{collection}-{icon}

• prefix: Component name prefix (default: i)
• collection: Iconify collection ID (e.g., mdi, carbon, fa-solid)
• icon: Icon name (kebab-case)

Custom Prefix:

IconsResolver({
  prefix: 'icon', // Use 'icon' instead of 'i'
})

<template>
  <icon-mdi-account />
</template>

No Prefix:

IconsResolver({
  prefix: false,
  enabledCollections: ['mdi'], // Optional: limit to specific collections
})

<template>
  <mdi-account />
</template>

Collection Aliases

Create shorter aliases for long collection names:

IconsResolver({
  alias: {
    park: 'icon-park',  // Use <icon-park-* /> instead of <icon-icon-park-* />
    fas: 'fa-solid',    // Use <icon-fas-* /> instead of <icon-fa-solid-* />
  }
})

Both the alias and full collection name work:

<template>
  <icon-park-abnormal />      <!-- Using alias -->
  <icon-icon-park-abnormal /> <!-- Using full name -->
</template>

Sponsors

This project is part of my Sponsor Program

License

MIT License © 2020-PRESENT Anthony Fu