🧱 react-icons-eject

Tree-shake your react-icons!

This tool scans your project for react-icons usage, extracts only the icons you actually use, and rewrites imports to point to local components — giving you full control over how icons are loaded and potentially improving bundle optimization in frameworks like Next.js.

✨ Features

• ✅ Replace all react-icons imports with local icon components
• 🔍 Detect and list all used react-icons in your project
• ⚙️ Customizable import paths and output directories via config file
• 🛠️ Designed for TypeScript projects (.ts, .tsx) using ESM

📦 Installation

npm install -g react-icons-eject

Or use without installing globally:

npx react-icons-eject

🚀 Usage

Just run:

react-icons-eject

You'll be prompted with several actions:

1. Replace all react-icons imports with local icon imports

Rewrites your imports like:

import { RiPlayLine } from 'react-icons/ri';

into:

import RiPlayLine from '@/icons/ri/RiPlayLine';

2. Import a single icon from react-icons and generate a local version

Allows you to generate only one icon like ri/RiPlayLine into your custom directory.

3. Scan the project and list all react-icons used

Outputs a icons-list.ts file containing all used icon identifiers in your project.

4. Scan and locally generate all react-icons used in the project

Automatically extracts all icons you're using and generates them locally.

⚠️ Limitations

This tool is designed with the following assumptions:

• 📁 Your project uses ES module syntax (import / export) — require() and CommonJS are not supported.
• 🧠 It scans .ts, .tsx, .js, and .jsx files, but:
  • ⚠️ Only ESM-based JavaScript (import { ... } from 'react-icons/ri') is supported
  • ✅ Generated icons are written as .tsx files — intended for TypeScript + React projects

If you're using plain JavaScript and want .js output, feel free to open an issue or submit a PR.

🧩 Configuration

On first run, you'll be prompted to create a react-icon-eject.config.ts file like this:

// react-icon-eject.config.ts
export const config = {
  outputDir: './src/components/icons',             // Directory where icons are written
  importPath: '@/components/icons',                // Path used in rewritten imports
};

GenIcon.tsx and IconContext.tsx will be copied automatically to outputDir (if not already present).

🤔 Why?

Using react-icons out of the box imports entire icon sets like react-icons/ri, which can:

• Break tree-shaking in some build tools
• Slow down your dev server and production builds
• Introduce unnecessary dependencies into your bundle

This tool helps by:

• Extracting only the icons you actually use
• Rewriting imports to static, local files
• Giving you full control over how icons are loaded and used

Related issues

• https://github.com/react-icons/react-icons/issues/593
• https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/70666

📄 License

MIT – free to use and modify.