Hi there ,
I hope everyone is doing well…

Tl;Dr: Is there a use case to have Heroicons from an actual hex.pm package instead of Github?

Right now, Heroicons is integrated in Phoenix in the following way:

• A github: dependency, which really only downloads Heroicons assets in the deps folder

  {:heroicons,
   github: "tailwindlabs/heroicons",
   tag: "v2.1.1",
   sparse: "optimized",
   app: false,
   compile: false,
   depth: 1},
  

• A Tailwind config file, instructed to read the files from the deps folder:

  plugin(function ({ matchComponents, theme }) {
    let iconsDir = path.join(__dirname, "../deps/heroicons/optimized")
    let values = {}
    let icons = [
      ["", "/24/outline"],
      ["-solid", "/24/solid"],
      ["-mini", "/20/solid"],
      ["-micro", "/16/solid"]
    ]
  

So far so good…

However, I had two use cases where this was not ideal:

• in one project using github dependency broke the CI as it needs git installed on the Elixir runner.. Okay it was fairly easy to fix.. Just install git..
• It’s not possible to update easily using Renovate for example (depandabot like tool).

So these two reasons are the incentives for me to make a package that will just do the same thing… I.e. to only import the assets into the deps folder.
This is done by leveraging the files: config option for the package: property of the package.

Then, it’ll be imported as a regular Hex dep:

{:heroicons_css, "~> 0.0.1", compile: false, app: false},

And still used the exact same way as it’s currently.

I was thinking to have this dep’s version in sync with the original github repo. e.g as of now:

{:heroicons_css, "~> 2.1.3", compile: false, app: false},

Also the sync will be entirely automated by CI..
From a repo forked from the original Tailwindlabs repo, added with the mix.exs file to configure the package.

What do you think?

Note:
Maybe, I should have asked this first..
But Tailwind 4 is around the corner: Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0 - Tailwind CSS
It seems a config file will no longer be needed.
And I was wondering if in our Phoenix’s use case (using Tailwind with the CLI) https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4-alpha#using-the-cli
it’ll still be possible to use the plugin() function?