Atom: consider publish the icons + icondb.js to npm

[thisconnect]

Would you consider publishing the icon tables + webfonts + css to npm?

I am planing to using file-icons/atom outside of atom

i.e

const iconTable = require('file-icons/lib/icons/icon-tables')

console.log(iconTable.matchName('file.json'))

[Alhadis]

Hey mate,

There's an unofficial port of it, but it's not affiliated with us: check out file-icons-js. It also hasn't been updated in several months, and is using code that's subject to change in future.

I could publish a standalone NPM module for this, but I'd need to know up-front that there's enough demand to warrant maintaining this package as an external library...

[Alhadis]

@thisconnect I've been giving this more serious thought lately, and I do indeed plan on making file-icons available to browsers and Node programs (officially).

Going to close this as it's technically a duplicate of #629. Please subscribe there for further discussion and to be notified of how things develop. =)

[Alhadis]

Reopening this, because it's ultimately the long-term direction for this package (which I'd like to develop into a full-fledged, portable icon library with file-matching superpowers).

[Alhadis]

https://github.com/file-icons/atom/issues/422#issuecomment-480771381