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flag-icons vs svg-sprite

CSS-in-JS and stylingPackage data 25 Sept 2026
flag-iconsv7.5.0, 29 May 2025

> A curated collection of all country flags in SVG — plus the CSS for easier integration. See the [demo](https://flagicons.lipis.dev).

$ npm install flag-icons
svg-spritev2.0.4, 26 Mar 2024

SVG sprites & stacks galore — A low-level Node.js module that takes a bunch of SVG files, optimizes them and bakes them into SVG sprites of several types along with suitable stylesheet resources (e.g. CSS, Sass, LESS, Stylus, etc.)

$ npm install svg-sprite
Metricflag-iconssvg-spriteDifference
Weekly downloads736,559151,144flag-icons 4.9x higher
12-month download growth+149%+14%flag-icons +135 pts
Gzip size---
Minified size---
Dependencies017svg-sprite 17 more
Unpacked size3.9 MB208 kBsvg-sprite 19.4x smaller
Latest release7.5.0, 29 May 20252.0.4, 26 Mar 2024flag-icons 14 months more recent
Releases, last 12 months0--
First published14 Nov 2016--
GitHub stars12,4231,988flag-icons 6.2x higher
Open issues2550svg-sprite 25 more
Open pull requests2424Same
Contributors---
Commits, last 52 weeks100flag-icons higher
TypeScript typesNoneNoneSame
Module formatCommonJSCommonJSSame
Runtimes---
LicenseMITMITSame

Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.

flag-icons736.6k latest weeksvg-sprite151.1k latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
Weekly npm downloads, 52 weeks. Y axis starts at zero. Values are not smoothed.

flag-icons

Major versions
  1. 1.0.014 Nov 2016
  2. 2.0.011 Oct 2018
  3. 5.0.020 Dec 2021
  4. 6.0.028 Dec 2021
  5. 7.0.017 Nov 2023
Last 5 releases
  1. 7.5.029 May 2025
  2. 7.4.029 May 2025
  3. 7.3.217 Jan 2025
  4. 7.3.116 Jan 2025
  5. 7.3.016 Jan 2025
63 releases in total, 0 in the last 12 months

svg-sprite

Major versions
  1. -
Last 5 releases
  1. -
Release count not fetched
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  • Need no runtime dependenciesflag-icons (flag-icons has 0, svg-sprite has 17)
  • Module formatBoth CommonJS
  • Need TypeScript types in the package itselfNeither (flag-icons: None; svg-sprite: None)
  • Node.js version requirementflag-icons: none declared; svg-sprite: >=12 (engines field in package.json)
  • Need the more recent releaseflag-icons (7.5.0 on 29 May 2025 vs 2.0.4 on 26 Mar 2024)
  • Higher weekly npm downloadsflag-icons (736.6k vs 151.1k)

Each line is generated from the data above.

svg-sprite: svg-sprite npm registry, svg-sprite npm downloads, svg-sprite GitHub. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.