icongo.github.io

What is icongo used for?

icongo is a search tool for SVG icons, aimed at developers who need to find an icon and drop it into a project quickly. Its stated purpose is to make it easy to include popular icons in React projects and to convert SVG artwork into React components.

What you can do with it

• Search an icon catalogue instead of browsing multiple icon sets one by one.
• Grab the SVG when you want a plain vector file for a website, slide deck or design file.
• Convert SVG into a React component, which suits React codebases where icons are imported as components rather than referenced as image files.

Who it fits

The React conversion angle is the main differentiator. If you work in React and want icons as importable components, that workflow saves you writing the wrapper yourself. If you only need a quick downloadable SVG for a non-React project, the search half of the tool is still useful, but the conversion feature is irrelevant to you.

Practical considerations

The site is a JavaScript app: with scripting disabled, the page shows only a notice that JavaScript must be enabled, so plan on using a normal browser rather than fetching the page as static HTML. For a specific icon, also check the licence terms of the original icon set before shipping it — a search interface aggregates icons but does not necessarily change their licensing.

As a next step, search for the concept you need (for example "arrow", "user" or "settings"), then decide between copying the SVG or generating a component based on whether your project is React. For alternatives, Lucide and Heroicons are well-known icon libraries with their own search and copy tools.

How do I convert an SVG icon into a React component with icongo?

You can't do the conversion without JavaScript enabled — the page is a client-side app, so the search-and-convert workflow only appears once scripts run. Open Search SVG Icons @icongo in a normal browser, find the icon you want, and use the built-in tool to turn the SVG into a React component.

What the conversion actually means

The site describes two things: searching popular icons, and an "easy tool to convert SVG into React components." In practice, that kind of tool rewrites raw SVG markup into a JSX-safe component — attributes like class become className, hyphenated attributes become camelCase (stroke-width → strokeWidth), and the markup is wrapped in a function that accepts props.

A typical workflow

1. Search for the icon by name or keyword.
2. Preview it to confirm it's the right variant (outline vs. filled, for example).
3. Run the conversion and copy the generated component code.
4. Paste it into a file in your project, then import it where needed.

If the tool lets you set the component name or choose between a plain functional component and one that spreads props onto the <svg> element, prefer the props-spreading version. It lets you control width, height, fill, className and accessibility attributes from the call site instead of editing the file each time.

Practical checks before you commit

• Licensing. Different icon sets ship under different licences. Confirm the terms for the specific set you pick before shipping it in a commercial product.
• Bundle size. Copying a handful of components is fine. If you need dozens of icons, an importable icon package is usually easier to keep updated than a folder of hand-converted files.
• Consistency. Mixing icons converted from several sets often produces mismatched stroke widths and optical sizes. Pick one family where you can.
• Accessibility. Give meaningful icons a <title> or aria-label, and mark purely decorative ones aria-hidden="true".

When to convert manually instead

If you only need one or two icons and already have the SVG file, editing it yourself is quick: change the attributes to JSX form, drop the <svg> element into a component, and you're done. The tool earns its place when you're pulling icons from a large searchable library and don't want to hand-edit each file.

A reasonable next step: convert one icon, drop it into a small test component, and render it at two or three sizes to check that it scales cleanly before converting the rest.

Which popular icon sets are available through icongo?

The icongo site is a search interface for popular SVG icon collections, aimed at developers who want to drop an icon into a React project or convert raw SVG into a React component. Because the page is a JavaScript app, the catalog is loaded dynamically; the site itself doesn't publish a static list of sets, so the practical way to see what's available is to open the app and browse or search by set name.

What you can expect

• Icon-set coverage: the value of a search front end like this is breadth — it aggregates well-known open icon libraries rather than a single house style, so you can mix outline, solid and brand marks from different sources in one project.
• Search-first workflow: find an icon by keyword (e.g. "arrow", "user", "github"), then copy the SVG or the generated React component.
• React-oriented output: the stated purpose is including icons in React projects and converting SVG into React components, which suits component-based front ends rather than plain HTML or design tools.
• License check is on you: aggregated sets carry different licenses (MIT, Apache, CC-BY, and some with attribution or brand-use restrictions). Confirm the terms for each icon before shipping, especially for logos and trademarks.

Choosing between this and alternatives

Use icongo when you want one search box across many sets and a quick SVG-to-React path. If you need a single, versioned dependency with guaranteed consistency, install the original library directly instead.

Next step: open the app, search a keyword you actually need, and note the set name shown for each result. Then check that set's license page before adding it to production code — that single check prevents most icon-related legal surprises.

How do I search for and find a specific SVG icon on icongo?

Open Search SVG Icons @icongo in a browser with JavaScript enabled, then type a keyword into the search field to filter the icon set. The site is a single-page app, so the search box and results only appear once scripts run; a blank page usually means JavaScript is blocked or still loading.

A practical search routine

1. Search by meaning, not by shape. Terms like "cart", "trash", "user" or "arrow" match icon names better than descriptions such as "round button with a bin".
2. Try the shortest form of the word. If "shopping-cart" returns nothing useful, try "cart" or "basket".
3. Switch between singular and plural, and between British and American spellings where relevant ("colour" vs. "color").
4. Browse a category or the full grid when you cannot guess the naming convention — this is often faster than repeated failed queries.
5. Inspect the result before using it. Check that the outline and filled variants, stroke weight and corner style match the rest of your interface.

Choosing between similar results

From finding to using

Once you have the right icon, the site's stated purpose is to help you pull popular icons into React projects and convert SVG into React components. That matters if you are building a component library: you can keep icons as components rather than as separate asset files, which makes them easier to recolour with props and to tree-shake. If you are not using React, copy the SVG markup and inline it, or save it as a file and reference it — the same artwork works either way.

A quick test before committing: drop the chosen icon into a real screen at its actual size, next to the text and buttons it will live with. An icon that looks crisp in a large preview grid can turn muddy at 16 pixels, and a filled variant that reads well on white may disappear on a dark header. Checking in context takes a minute and prevents a later swap across every screen that uses it.

Can I download SVG icons from icongo for free and use them commercially?

You can download SVG icons from icongo.github.io for free and use them commercially, but you should verify the license of the specific icon set you pick before you ship anything. The site itself is a search and conversion tool rather than a single icon library, so the terms that matter come from whichever underlying icon pack each icon belongs to.

Search SVG Icons @icongo presents itself as a search interface for SVG icons, with a companion tool that converts SVG files into React components. That means two separate things are happening: you search and download an icon, and separately the site helps you turn it into a component for a React project. The download step is where licensing applies.

What to check before commercial use

• The source collection. Many popular icon sets are MIT, Apache 2.0 or CC0, which permit commercial use with few conditions. Others, especially brand or logo sets, restrict commercial use or require attribution.
• Attribution requirements. MIT and Apache typically require you to keep the copyright notice and license text somewhere in your project. CC0 usually does not.
• Trademark limits. Even a permissively licensed logo icon may not be usable as your own brand mark. Icon licenses rarely grant trademark rights.
• Modification rules. Some licenses allow recoloring and reshaping; others require the icon to stay intact.

A practical way to decide

If you are building a product interface, stick to icon sets you can identify by name and whose license you can read in full, such as MIT-licensed general-purpose sets. If an icon is a company logo or a recognizable brand symbol, treat the license as secondary and check the brand's own usage guidelines first.

For a concrete case: a developer adding a settings gear and a download arrow to a commercial dashboard is usually fine with an MIT-licensed set, provided the license file stays in the repository. The same developer using a payment provider's logo icon in a checkout flow should confirm the provider's brand rules, because icon licenses generally do not cover trademark use.

As a next step, open the icon you want, identify its parent collection, and read that collection's license page before you commit it to a shipped build.

How do I include an icon from icongo in a React project?

The page at Search SVG Icons @icongo is a JavaScript app, so the working flow is: open it in a browser, search for the icon you want, then copy the SVG or the generated React component into your project rather than installing a package from it.

What to do step by step

1. Open Search SVG Icons @icongo and search by icon name or keyword.
2. Select the icon you want and use the site's SVG-to-React conversion output.
3. Paste the result into a component file in your React project.
4. If you copied raw SVG markup instead, convert the attributes to JSX: class becomes className, stroke-width becomes strokeWidth, fill-rule becomes fillRule, and self-closing tags need a slash.
5. Import and render the component wherever the icon is needed.

What the generated component typically looks like

The converted output is a plain function component that spreads props onto the <svg> element, so you can pass width, height, className, color or aria-label at the call site:

export function ArrowIcon(props) {
  return (
    <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="1em" height="1em" {...props}>
      <path d="..." fill="currentColor" />
    </svg>
  );
}

Using fill="currentColor" and a 1em default size means the icon inherits text color and scales with font size — useful for buttons and inline labels.

Practical trade-offs

For a typical app, copying five to twenty converted components is the least friction. If you need hundreds of icons across many teams, a maintained package is usually easier to version and update.

A concrete example

Suppose you are building a settings page and need a gear icon next to a "Preferences" heading. Search "settings" or "gear" on the site, convert the result, save it as SettingsIcon.jsx, then render <SettingsIcon className="w-5 h-5 text-gray-600" /> beside the heading. Because props spread onto the SVG, Tailwind or plain CSS classes work without extra wrapper elements.

One caveat: the site renders entirely in the browser and its visible content depends on JavaScript, so if the page appears blank, check that scripts are enabled or try a different browser before assuming an icon is missing.