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React Font Awesome is distributed via npm:
npm install react react-fa
You also need to install webpack which is the only bundler at the moment capable to bundle not only JavaScript code but also stylesheets and static assets such as fonts and images:
npm install webpack
You also need a couple of loaders for webpack:
npm install babel-loader style-loader css-loader url-loader file-loader
npm install extract-text-webpack-plugin
Just as simple as:
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import {Icon} from 'react-fa'
ReactDOM.renderComponent(
<Icon spin name="spinner" />,
document.getElementById('main')
)
Props in [] are optional
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | undefined | Required: Name of the Font Awesome Icon |
| [className] | string | undefined | Set a CSS class for extra styles |
| [size] | string | undefined | Increase size: 'lg', '2x', '3x', '4x', '5x' |
| [rotate] | string | undefined | Rotate by deg: '45', '90', '135', '180', '225', '270', '315' |
| [flip] | string | undefined | Flips Icon: 'horizontal', 'vertical' |
| [fixedWidth] | boolean | false | Set Icon to a fixed width |
| [spin] | boolean | false | Rotate Icon |
| [pulse] | boolean | false | Rotate Icon in 8 steps |
| [stack] | string | undefined | Stack Icons: '1x', '2x'. More Info |
| [inverse] | boolean | false | Inverse the Icon color |
| [Component] | string/func | span | Alternate DOM element |
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| [children] | node | undefined | Required: Child elements |
| [size] | string | undefined | Increase size: 'lg', '2x', '3x', '4x', '5x' |
| [className] | string | undefined | Set a CSS class for extra styles |
Use the following webpack config (put it in webpack.config.js):
var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin')
module.exports = {
entry: './index.js',
output: {
path: 'assets',
filename: 'bundle.js',
},
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
loader: 'babel'
},
{
test: /\.css$/,
loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style-loader', 'css-loader')
},
{
test: /\.woff(2)?(\?v=[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])?$/,
loader: 'url-loader?limit=10000&mimetype=application/font-woff'
},
{
test: /\.(ttf|eot|svg)(\?v=[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])?$/,
loader: 'file-loader'
}
]
},
plugins: [
new ExtractTextPlugin('bundle.css')
]
}
which compile everything (js, stylesheets and icon fonts) into assets/
directory so you would need this basic HTML file to start your app:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/bundle.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="main"></div>
<script src="assets/bundle.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Note: If you run into issues with loading the FontAwesome font when not using ExtractTextPlugin, this might be fixed by making your publicPath absolute. See this StackOverflow question for details.
FAQs
Font Awesome icons as React components
The npm package react-fa receives a total of 9,123 weekly downloads. As such, react-fa popularity was classified as popular.
We found that react-fa demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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