@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome

What is @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome?

@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome is an Angular wrapper for Font Awesome, a popular icon toolkit. It allows you to easily integrate Font Awesome icons into your Angular applications.

What are @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome's main functionalities?

Basic Icon Usage

This feature allows you to use Font Awesome icons in your Angular templates. The example shows how to include a 'coffee' icon from the 'fas' (Font Awesome Solid) icon set.

<fa-icon [icon]="['fas', 'coffee']"></fa-icon>

Customizing Icons

You can customize the appearance of the icons by applying styles directly. The example demonstrates how to change the color and size of the 'coffee' icon.

<fa-icon [icon]="['fas', 'coffee']" [styles]="{ color: 'red', 'font-size': '24px' }"></fa-icon>

Using Icon Libraries

This feature allows you to add entire icon packs to the library, making them available throughout your application. The example shows how to add the 'fas' (Font Awesome Solid) icon pack.

import { FaIconLibrary } from '@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome';
import { fas } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';

constructor(library: FaIconLibrary) {
  library.addIconPacks(fas);
}

Dynamic Icons

You can dynamically change the icon based on component properties. The example shows how to bind the icon to a component property called 'dynamicIcon'.

<fa-icon [icon]="dynamicIcon"></fa-icon>

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README

angular-fontawesome

Official Angular component for Font Awesome 5

Installation

Using ng add:

# See Compatibility table below to choose a correct version
$ ng add @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome@<version>

Using Yarn

$ yarn add @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core
$ yarn add @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons
# See Compatibility table below to choose a correct version
$ yarn add @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome@<version>

Using NPM

$ npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core
$ npm install @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons
# See Compatibility table below to choose a correct version
$ npm install @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome@<version>

Compatibility table

@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome	Angular	ng-add
0.1.x	5.x	not supported
0.2.x	6.x	not supported
0.3.x	6.x && 7.x	not supported
0.4.x, 0.5.x	8.x	not supported
0.6.x	9.x	supported
0.7.x	10.x	supported
0.8.x	11.x	supported

Usage

To get up and running using Font Awesome with Angular follow below steps:

1. Add FontAwesomeModule to imports in src/app/app.module.ts:

   import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
   import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
   
   import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
   import { FontAwesomeModule } from '@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome';
   
   @NgModule({
     imports: [
       BrowserModule,
       FontAwesomeModule
     ],
     declarations: [AppComponent],
     bootstrap: [AppComponent]
   })
   export class AppModule { }
   

2. Tie the icon to the property in your component src/app/app.component.ts:

   import { Component } from '@angular/core';
   import { faCoffee } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';
   
   @Component({
     selector: 'app-root',
     templateUrl: './app.component.html'
   })
   export class AppComponent {
     faCoffee = faCoffee;
   }
   

3. Use the icon in the template src/app/app.component.html:

   <fa-icon [icon]="faCoffee"></fa-icon>
   

Documentation

• In-depth usage guide
• Using other styles
• Full feature list
• Upgrading instructions

Examples

Stackblitz

Here's a StackBlitz Starter Sample on how to display Solid, Regular, and Brand icons using the Icon Library.

Demo application

You can find examples in the projects/demo directory. You can follow the docs to run the demo app on your own machine.

Contributing

angular-fontawesome is a product of the community, you can take a look at the developer docs to find about more on how to contribute back to the project.

Contributors

The following contributors have either helped to start this project, have contributed code, are actively maintaining it (including documentation), or in other ways being awesome contributors to this project. We'd like to take a moment to recognize them.

If we've missed someone (which is quite likely) submit a Pull Request to us and we'll get it resolved.

The Font Awesome team:

Changelog

0.8.0 - 2020-11-12

Fixed

• Fixed ng add crash if tslint is not installed.

Added

• Support for Angular 11.
• Documentation on how to use angular-fontawesome with Storybook.

Removed

• Angular 10.x is no longer supported. If you are using this version, please, stick with version 0.7.0.