React/ReactJS: Material UI Icons

Material UI is one of the most popular ReactJS component libraries. The components make use of Google’s Material Design. Material UI is an MIT-licensed open source project.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Material UI Icons in a React application. We install the @material-ui/icons npm package which has 1000+ icons converted from Material Icons, listed here:

https://material-ui.com/components/material-icons/

reactjs material ui icons

We first install Material UI. These are React components implemented from Google's Material Design. 

					
						npm install @material-ui/core

Next install @material-ui/icons. 

					
						npm install @material-ui/icons

Material UI Icons in React

Below we illustrate how to use a Material UI Icon in React. We create a simple functional component which returns just the desired icon. Say we choose to use the below Home icon.

material ui home icon

We import it into our code from @material-ui/icons. We then invoke it like any normal component with opening and closing tags. 

						
							import React from 'react';
							import Home from '@material-ui/icons/Home';

							const Icon = () => {
							    return (
							      <div>	
							      	<Home></Home>					      
							      </div>
							    );
							}

							export default Icon;

We see the Home icon rendered as follows:

reactjs material ui home icon

Now if there are many icons to use, there is a better way to import them. 

						
							import React from 'react';
							import { Home, LocationOn, Notifications } from '@material-ui/icons';

							const Icons = () => {
							    return (
							      <div>	
							      	<Home></Home>
							      	<LocationOn></LocationOn>
							      	<Notifications></Notifications>					      
							      </div>
							    );
							}

							export default Icons;
reactjs material ui three icon

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