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Icons config
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By default Vuestic UI uses Material Design icons. If that's too basic for you - vuestic has powerful icon config.

Depending on icon library, they could use classes, ligatures or components. So you have to configure vuestic icons to work with your icon solution.

Fonts
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We want to use the <va-icon name='icon-name' /> pattern. We can setup a config for a specific icon name pattern. In that config we provide an icon class, attributes, tag, contents (innerHTML) or a Vue component relative to icon name.

Font name pattern
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Font name pattern is similar to vue dynamic routes. We can use dynamic segments to dynamically generate IconConfig in resolve function. Dynamic segments should be written in curly brackets.

Interactive playground
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Here you can see how your code will be transformed with different icon configs. You can change icon config params to see how it impact on final render. See our presets before play.

va-icon name="
fa-book
" /
const fonts = [{
name: '
fa-{code}
',
resolve: ({ code }) => ({
class:
`fas fa-${code}`
,
content:
,
attrs:
,
tag:
,
})
}]

Aliases
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To make code simpler we can use aliases. Alias has a to prop which would change the name of a given icon to the value of to and look for an appropriate font config. All the props from resolved font would be applied to that icon if they were not defined in alias config.

Example aliases config
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import VuesticLogoSVGComponent from "some-component.vue";

const aliases = [
  {
    name: "close",
    to: "fa4-times",
  },
  {
    name: "twitter",
    to: "fa4-twitter",
    color: "#1da1f2", // Twitter blue brand color
  },
  {
    name: "vuestic-logo",
    component: VuesticLogoSVGComponent,
    color: "primary",
  },
  {
    name: "english",
    to: "flag-gb-small",
  },
];

Vuestic component aliases
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We use some icons in our components by default. You can redefine them by changing it's alias.

va-unsorted
swap_vert
va-sort-asc
va-arrow-up
va-sort-desc
va-arrow-down
va-arrow-first
mi-first_page
va-arrow-last
mi-last_page
va-arrow-right
mi-chevron_right
va-arrow-left
mi-chevron_left
va-arrow-down
mi-expand_more
va-arrow-up
mi-expand_less
va-calendar
mi-calendar_today
va-delete
mi-delete_outline
va-check
mi-check
va-check-circle
mi-check_circle
va-warning
mi-warning
va-clear
mi-highlight_off
va-close
mi-close
va-loading
mi-loop
va-plus
mi-add
va-minus
mi-remove

Let's build our config
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We need to update icons config in our global config. Icons config is a flat array with Vuestic default font and aliases. We can use the createIconsConfig() helper to create a new config with Vuestic defaults and our custom fonts and aliases merged together. For example:

import { createVuestic, createIconsConfig } from "vuestic-ui";

const aliases = [
  /*...*/
];
const fonts = [
  /*...*/
];

createApp(App)
  .use(createVuestic({
    config: {
      icons: createIconsConfig({ aliases, fonts }),
    },
  }))
  .mount("#app");

IconConfig
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You can use IconConfig properties in aliases, fonts and as return in resolve function.

PropTypeDescription
class

string | undefined

Class that will be applied to the icon. Can be a string or a function that accepts dynamic segment value and returns a string.

content

string | undefined

Content that will be inside the icon. Can be a string or a function that accepts dynamic segment value and returns a string.

component

VueComponent | undefined

VueComponent that will be used instead of a tag.

attrs

Record<string, any> | undefined

Props that will be bound to component. Can be an object or a function that accepts dynamic segment value and returns an object.

to

string | undefined

Here you can define name of a config which values will be merged to this config

tag

string | undefined

A tag to render icon with. By default - i

color

string | undefined

Sets the CSS color property to a given value

rotation

number | string | undefined

Rotates the icon by specified angle (in degrees)

spin

'clockwise' | 'counter-clockwise' | undefined

Applies the spin animation to the icon