vscode-material-icons

VSCode Material Icon Theme wrapper for applications to self-host icons and select icon based on file path.

Setup

Install vscode-material-icons with your package manager:

npm install vscode-material-icons

yarn add vscode-material-icons

pnpm add vscode-material-icons

Self-hosting icons

If you want to self-host the icons in your front-end app, configure your bundler to copy the node_modules/vscode-material-icons/generated/icons folder to your build output.

Use copy-webpack-plugin in webpack.config.js:

const CopyPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  // ...
  plugins: [
    // ...
    new CopyPlugin({
      patterns: [
        {
          from: 'node_modules/vscode-material-icons/generated/icons',
          to: 'assets/material-icons',
        },
      ],
    }),
  ],
};

Append to assets in angular.json (or project.json if using Nx):

{
  // ..
  "targets": {
    "build": {
      "executor": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:browser",
      "options": {
        // ...
        "assets": [
          // ...
          {
            "glob": "**/*",
            "input": "./node_modules/vscode-material-icons/generated/icons",
            "output": "/assets/material-icons/"
          }
        ]
      }
      // ...
    }
  }
}

Usage

Use exported functions to get an icon name/URL from a file/folder path:

import {
  getIconForFilePath,
  getIconUrlByName,
  getIconUrlForFilePath,
  type MaterialIcon,
} from 'vscode-material-icons';

// should match output path configured in bundler
const ICONS_URL = '/assets/material-icons';

// example 1: file path -> image URL
const iconUrl: string = getIconUrlForFilePath('src/index.html', ICONS_URL);

// example 2: file path -> icon name
const icon: MaterialIcon = getIconForFilePath('src/app/app.component.ts');

// example 3: icon name -> image URL
const tsIconUrl: string = getIconUrlByName('typescript', ICONS_URL);

It's also simple to validate icon names in a type-safe way:

import {
  isMaterialIcon,
  MATERIAL_ICONS,
  type MaterialIcon,
} from 'vscode-material-icons';

// example 1: use union type for autocomplete
let icon: MaterialIcon;

// example 2: validate icon name with type predicate function
if (isMaterialIcon(value)) {
  icon = value;
}

// example 3: integrate with schema validation library, e.g. Zod
const materialIconSchema = z.enum(MATERIAL_ICONS);
icon = materialIconSchema.parse(value);

Contributing

• Install dependencies with npm install.
• Run unit tests with npm test.
• Build library with npm run build.
• Re-fetch icons from VSCode extension with npm run fetch-icons.
• Release new version with npm run release.