Automatically include all statically-referenced icons about astro-icon

[hrvstr]

This would be a really neat feature but I understand that there are too many edge cases to build something like this.

How are you handling explicitly listing icons on larger projects? I have quite a long list of icons in my projects, and maintaining it is a lot of effort. This is especially hard when coming back to an older project. I have to go through all the components and check what icons are used.

Maybe we can do this the other way around and create a script that lists which icons are required to build the project. Let's say I remove all icons from the config file and run the build command. The build fails and I get a list of all missing icons that I can then explicitly list in my config.

[natemoo-re]

This is an interesting idea! It could definitely work, but I'm obviously hesitant to try to write code that handles all the possible edge cases here and can operate on every possible file type. For example, Astro gets a lot of support questions about Tailwind not supporting dynamic expressions because of the similar strategy they use. It's not the most intuitive behavior IMO.

A similar effort by @antfu called PurgeIcon has since been abandoned, I assume due to the maintenance burden of such complex behavior.

In my opinion, explicit opt-in is almost always a better choice than implicit magic.