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@coremyslo/nuxt-icon-font

Automatically generates fonts and custom properties (variables) from a specified folder containing SVG icons, injecting them into pages with live monitoring.

@coremyslo/nuxt-icon-font

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Nuxt icon font generator


Note: This is Nuxt 3 compatible module only.


Features

  • 🕵️‍♂️ Watches specified folder (and sub-folders) with SVG icons and generates fonts on change
  • 💅 Optimizes SVG files via SVGO
  • 🤯 Manual or browserslist based auto-detection of font formats to generate
  • 🏗️ Generates and injects custom properties (variables) with icon codes into pages, where SVG file name is used as a variable name
  • ❤️ Detects and generates the most popular font format as base64 to reduce page jump effect

Usage

<template>
  <p>I'm a text with icon!</p>
</template>
<style scoped lang="scss">
  p {
    &:before {
      content: var(--icon-font-house);
      font-family: "icon-font";
    }
  }
</style>

Setup

  1. Add @coremyslo/nuxt-icon-font dependency to your project
npx nuxi@latest module add icon-font
  1. Add my-module to the modules section of nuxt.config.ts
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  modules: [
    "@coremyslo/nuxt-icon-font"
  ]
})
  1. Optional Configure for your needs in nuxt.config.ts. Below is the default configuration.
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  // ...
  iconFont: {
    // Font name to be used in "font-family" and custom properties generated prefix "--icon-font-svgiconfilename"
    name: "icon-font",
    // folder with icons to watch
    sourceDirPath: "assets/icon-font",
    // target folder for generated fonts in "public" folder
    targetDirPath: "icon-font",
    // font formats to generate, fallback to ["woff2"] in case browserslist is not used, example for manual configuration: ["svg", "ttf", "woff", "woff2", "eot"] in any order
    formats: getFontFormatsList(browserslist()),
    // Generates font in memory as "woff" and injects it as base64 to reduce page jump effect, ignores "formats" option
    base64: true,
    // unicode symbol for first icon in iconfont (makes sense to change only if you're not going to use custom properties)
    unicode: "0xE900",
    // generated custom properties (variables) format. Other options are: "snake", "pascal", "camel", "header", "constant"
    case: "kebab"
  }
})