Generate icons with Github Actions

[lukahartwig]

Background

Our current flow for adding icons to the design system consists of:

1. Designer provides icon as SVG
2. Developer adds this icon to the assets/ folder
3. Run script to generate React component
4. Create PR
5. Merge & Release

This takes time and slows us down.

Idea

Github allows uploading files through the UI so it is possible to upload an SVG directly through the website. This means a designer can handle this without having to touch git and checkout the code. When a new icon is uploaded we can trigger a Github Action to run the script to generate the component and create/update the PR with the new icon.

The new flow would look like this:

1. Designer uploades icon as SVG to Github which triggers Action to generate the React component and opens a PR
2. Maintainer reviews PR and merges to main (creating a automatic release with #38)

[lloydaf]

@nlopin I see that the actions are setup and the pull requests are merged. Is this issue still relevant/do we need to setup anything additionally to what has been done?

[lukahartwig]

This issue is about the idea to have some sort of "self service" for designers to add new icons to the design system. I proposed using GitHub actions to automate this. As far as I can see this has not been implemented. The only Actions I see are related to tests and release.