Why an icon library doesn't have to bloat your bundle

Tree-shaking is why a GeoIcons install can hold 799 icons, the count at the time of this post and still growing, while your app ships three. When you write: import { Us } from '@geoicons/react/countries' your bundler includes the Us component and drops the rest. You pay for what you import, not for what the package contains. That sentence hides a...