@fortawesome/react-fontawesome

What is @fortawesome/react-fontawesome?

The @fortawesome/react-fontawesome package is a React component for using Font Awesome icons in React applications. It provides a convenient way to include Font Awesome icons in your project and supports various features such as sizing, coloring, animations, and more.

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

Displaying icons

This feature allows you to display Font Awesome icons by importing the FontAwesomeIcon component and the specific icon you want to use from the free or pro libraries.

{"import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
import { faCoffee } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faCoffee} />
    </div>
  );
}"}

Styling icons

You can style icons by passing props such as 'size' for the icon size and 'color' for the icon color.

{"import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
import { faCoffee } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faCoffee} size='lg' color='blue' />
    </div>
  );
}"}

Animating icons

This feature allows you to animate icons, such as adding a spinning effect to icons by using the 'spin' prop.

{"import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
import { faSpinner } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faSpinner} spin />
    </div>
  );
}"}

Layering and transforming icons

You can layer multiple icons on top of each other and apply transformations such as shrinking, rotating, or moving the icon.

{"import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
import { faCircle, faCheck } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';

function App() {
  return (
    <span className='fa-layers fa-fw'>
      <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faCircle} color='green' />
      <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faCheck} inverse transform='shrink-6' />
    </span>
  );
}"}

Other packages similar to @fortawesome/react-fontawesome

react-icons

React-icons is a package that includes a large set of icons from various icon libraries (such as Font Awesome, Material Design, and Ionicons). It is similar to @fortawesome/react-fontawesome but provides access to multiple libraries in one package, which can be more convenient if you need icons from different sources.

README

react-fontawesome

Font Awesome 5 React component using SVG with JS

• Documentation
• How to Help
• Contributors
• Releasing this project (only project owners can do this)

Documentation

Official documentation is hosted at fontawesome.com:

Check it out here

How to Help

Review the following docs before diving in:

• CONTRIBUTING.md
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

And then:

1. Check the existing issue and see if you can help!

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.

	Name	GitHub
	Nate Radebaugh	@NateRadebaugh
	Kirk Ross	@kirkbross
	Prateek Goel	@prateekgoel
	Naor Torgeman	@naortor
	Matthew Hand	@mmhand123
	calvinf	@calvinf
	Bill Parrott	@chimericdream
	Mike Lynch	@baelec
	Lukáš Rod	@rodlukas
	Proudust	@proudust
	Tiago Sousa	@TiagoPortfolio

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:

	Name	GitHub
	Travis Chase	@supercodepoet
	Rob Madole	@robmadole
	Mike Wilkerson	@mlwilkerson
	Brian Talbot	@talbs
	Brian Talbot	@talbs
	Jason Lundien	@jasonlundien

Releasing this project (only project owners can do this)

See DEVELOPMENT.md