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Clarify maintenance status and consider deprecating react-devicons #19

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@josch87

Hi,

Following up on #18, which has remained unresolved since July 2025, I wanted to ask about the future maintenance of react-devicons.

The repository hasn't received any commits since March 2024, and the npm package is still at v2.16.2, despite newer releases of the upstream Devicon project.

Meanwhile, @devicons-pack/react has emerged as an actively maintained alternative, providing React components for the same Devicon icon collection with automated upstream synchronization.

I've also proposed @devicons-pack/react as a preferred replacement for react-devicons in the e18e module-replacements project, including a migration example and compatibility notes:

e18e/module-replacements#1155

If there are no plans to continue maintaining react-devicons, would it make sense to:

  • Mark the npm package as deprecated, pointing users to @devicons-pack/react.
  • Add a maintenance notice and migration recommendation to the README.
  • Archive the GitHub repository to make its maintenance status clear.

This would help existing users identify a maintained alternative and prevent new projects from depending on an outdated package.

Of course, if there are plans to resume development, an update on the project's future would be equally appreciated.

Thanks for your work on this project!

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