Paper is also using React and has a component for inserting icons. One advantage is that SVG is a well-structured format that we can manipulate with code. On the engineering side, we use inline SVGs. Thankfully, the Paper team does a lot of things right when it comes to icons. To add or edit icons, they had to run ad-hoc scripts to optimize SVGs and then paste them into a file. If designers wanted to use an icon in a mock, they could ask around, download from the web inspector, or, if all else failed, grab a screenshot. The Dropbox Paper team didn’t have a great system for managing icons in the early days. Is it on your laptop? Your old laptop? Is it in “icons_latest_jw_jan17.sketch” or “icons_final_FINAL.sketch”? Does Angela know? Does Angela know someone who knows? When will the person Angela knows get back to Angela, so Angela can get back to you, so you can get back to the person who asked you in the first place?
This can be a scary question for designers. “Hey, do you have the source file for that ‘add members’ icon?”
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