Language icons

[RakeshPotnuru]

Describe the solution you'd like
Add icons to languages like github stats icons.

[FayasNoushad]

Its a good suggestion

[rickstaa]

@RakeshPotnuru I think this is a cool feature. We could use https://github.com/devicons/devicon/pulls to pull the icons.

[DIvkov575]

could I be assigned to this?

[rickstaa]

@DIvkov575 I am happy to assign you to this issue, but I'm not sure it can be implemented without slowing the cards down too much. As explained by @anuraghazra in #2099 (comment), PRs should be mostly self-contained to prevent the Vercel function or GitHub from timing out. The devicon npm package is 139 MB and can, therefore, not be used. We could fetch the icon SVGs directly from the Devicon CDN, but this will still end us up with around 500kb of SVG data per icon. So I don't think implementing this feature is possible given the current Vercel and GitHub timeout limits. Maybe let's check what @anuraghazra thinks.

[DIvkov575]

@anuraghazra @rickstaa Do you think it would be possible to add images by adding them to the person's readme repo and passing image paths into the card?

[rickstaa]

@anuraghazra @rickstaa Do you think it would be possible to add images by adding them to the person's readme repo and passing image paths into the card?

I think this is not desirable since GRS is meant to be easy to install. It is not a matter of where these icons are stored, the Devicons CDN is very fast, but more a matter of the total size of 10 icon SVGs on the card and the effect on the initial card loading speed. I did not test this out myself, but just a hypothesis. You can of course still create a PR so we can test it out. 👍🏻

[rickstaa]

@DIvkov575 To give you a bit more context. The timeout I'm talking about is the Vercel maxDuration timeout we must adhere to (see https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/limits/overview). That said, we might be able to include this as an opt-in feature that can be enabled using an environment variable. This would allow us to enable language icons for the GitHub action where these timeouts do not exist (see #2179). This GitHub action has, however, not yet been implemented.