Problems encountered with dynamic import of React Material UI icons

Question

Hello, I am trying to dynamically load icons from mui, here is the code:

import React from "react";
import * as MuiIcons from "@mui/icons-material";
console.log("MuiIcons: ", MuiIcons);

const Icon = ({ iconName }) => {
        return <div>{MuiIcons[iconName]}</div>;
};

export default Icon;

But I get the following error:

react-dom.development.js:14887 Uncaught Error: Objects are not valid as a React child (found: object with keys {$$typeof, type, compare}). If you meant to render a collection of children, use an array instead.
    at throwOnInvalidObjectType (react-dom.development.js:14887:9)
    at reconcileChildFibers2 (react-dom.development.js:15828:7)
    at reconcileChildren (react-dom.development.js:19167:28)
    at updateHostComponent (react-dom.development.js:19924:3)
    at beginWork (react-dom.development.js:21618:14)
    at HTMLUnknownElement.callCallback2 (react-dom.development.js:4164:14)
    at Object.invokeGuardedCallbackDev (react-dom.development.js:4213:16)
    at invokeGuardedCallback (react-dom.development.js:4277:31)
    at beginWork$1 (react-dom.development.js:27451:7)
    at performUnitOfWork (react-dom.development.js:26557:12)

Any solutions? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You are importing an object and not a React component.

To use it this way, you would do this:

const Icon = ({ iconName }) => {
  const Icon = MuiIcons[iconName]
  return <Icon />
}