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Demo icon component (PNG instead of SVG) #2298

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HI @ryskin ! Great question!

You're right! Quick history:
The first versions of Ignite (2016) used icon font files bundled with the boilerplate. Later that was refactored into a plugin and vector icons became opt-in. Meanwhile, the boilerplate shifted to a more leaner design (using the plugin system to augment when needed). Only icons "required" for the base boilerplate were bundled which were pngs. In 2018, the first version of the Icon component was added which used pngs exclusively. In 2020, plugins became deprecated and no longer supported.

So, to summarize, the SVG icons were built-in in the very beginning and in 2.0 were extracted to a plugin and in 6.0 no longer available under th…

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