Finding an SVG icon is easy. Keeping a consistent set of icons across an evolving React application takes a little more planning.
Consider a dashboard with navigation, billing, notifications, and account settings. Each screen needs icons, but downloading them one by one quickly leads to a folder of unrelated assets.
A more practical approach is to build a collection specifically for the project.
1. Create a collection for your UI
On SVGicons, you can create a named Icon Collection and add icons directly from search results or individual icon pages.
For a dashboard, you might create a collection called Dashboard Navigation and select icons for:
- Home
- Analytics
- Billing
- Notifications
- Settings
The collection preserves the original icon references, including their source sets and license information.
You can also reorder icons, remove unused entries, and review which icon families are represented.
2. Choose how your icons behave
Before exporting, two settings are particularly useful.
Color policy
For a typical React interface, currentColor allows compatible icons to inherit their color from CSS.
That means a navigation icon can follow the color of its surrounding UI without requiring a separate colored SVG file.
SVGicons also supports preserve for original colors and strip for workflows that require normalized paint attributes.
Naming policy
You can choose consistent naming conventions, including kebab, camel, and pascal.
For React components, PascalCase is a natural choice: ArrowLeft, CreditCard, or Settings.
3. Export components instead of converting every SVG
Once the collection is ready, SVGicons can generate an archive containing React TypeScript components.
Depending on the selected export options, the archive can also contain:
- Individual SVG files and an SVG sprite
- JSON metadata and license manifests
- Vue, Svelte, Solid, or Blade components
- Storybook galleries and npm package scaffolds
This avoids manually converting every selected SVG into a frontend component.
The exported files can then be added to your project and managed alongside your application code.
4. Keep the collection as your UI evolves
A dashboard rarely stays unchanged.
When a new feature needs an icon, you can return to the collection, review the existing visual style, and add another selection.
SVGicons also provides a VS Code extension that lets Pro users access collections and add icons directly from the editor.
The collection remains available for future exports, while the generated files live in your project.
A small detail worth checking
Before shipping, review the collection's icon sets and license summary. Grouping icons into one archive does not automatically make their licenses identical.
Creating and organizing collections is free with a Member account. Adding icons and exporting collections use Pro credits, and free Member accounts include 15 credits to explore the workflow.
Final thought
A reusable icon collection is not just a convenient way to download multiple SVG files.
It gives your project a defined selection of icons, consistent export settings, and a practical route from visual selection to frontend components.
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