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It's great that stylesheets are included by default in lightning experiencem but where do we access the icon svg resources. Lightning experience loads the svg in what looks like a different way than we are provided with.
For example a lead icon url looks like this: "https://cs62.salesforce.com/img/icon/t4v35/standard/lead_120.png" how can we get access to the standard svg icons without loading static resources or is it best practice to load them from a static resource?
You can call all SLDS icons using this method as defined in the lightning component developer guide. Which means you do not need to call from static resource as long as you are working in lightning.
<aura:component>
<lightning:icon iconName="action:approval" size="large" alternativeText="Indicates approval"/>
</aura:component>
To see the list of icons and what short code to use, refer to the main SLDS website. For example, the round icon for lead would be action:lead while the search monochrome icon would be utility:search. Hope this helps.
