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Problem with fetching icons (clientBundle)

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nuxt, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start with the Nuxt config shown in the issue and reproduce the five-icon clientBundle setup with scan disabled. Compare the bundled icons with their use in vanilla HTML via the iconify i-pack:name classes and check the @nuxt/icon README behavior. Done means the configured icons produce usable classes outside <Icon> elements, or the limitation is documented clearly.

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Description

TLDR;
I am having problem with clientBundle working out. (I need to prefetch icons and generate CSS classes for them.)

nuxt 3.16.1
@nuxt/icon 1.11.0
doing this because apexcharts icons

I am having a problem with fetching my desired icons in advance. I am gladly using <Icon> elements, but in one case I need 5 icons in "vanilla" HTML. So I am using <span class="iconify i-pack:name"</span> element.
The problem is that this way it doesn't go through the @nuxt/icon module so the class i-pack:name doesn't exist.

Temporary fix is pasting these elements before the case:

<Icon style="display: none;" name="heroicons:magnifying-glass-plus-16-solid" />
<Icon style="display: none;" name="heroicons:magnifying-glass-minus-16-solid" />
<Icon style="display: none;" name="heroicons:arrows-pointing-out-16-solid" />
<Icon style="display: none;" name="heroicons:hand-raised-16-solid" />
<Icon style="display: none;" name="heroicons:arrow-path-16-solid" />

I would love to just use clientBundle in my Nuxt config, like this:

icon: {
  serverBundle: 'remote',
  clientBundle: {
    icons: [
      'heroicons:magnifying-glass-plus-16-solid',
      'heroicons:magnifying-glass-minus-16-solid',
      'heroicons:arrows-pointing-out-16-solid',
      'heroicons:hand-raised-16-solid',
      'heroicons:arrow-path-16-solid',
    ],
    scan: false,
  }
},

and the console writes:

ℹ Nuxt Icon client bundle consist of 5 icons with 2.41KB(uncompressed) in size

but it simply doesn't work as the temprorary solution. Maybe I have misunderstood something in the readme file of @nuxt/icons but I cannot simply find it out.
Any ideas please?

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