[reactjs] How to include a Font Awesome icon in React's render()

Whenever I try to use a Font Awesome icon in React's render(), it isn't displayed on the resulting web page although it works in normal HTML.

render: function() {
    return <div><i class="fa fa-spinner fa-spin">no spinner but why</i></div>;
}

Here is an live example: http://jsfiddle.net/pLWS3/

Where is the fault?

Checkout react icons pretty dope and worked well.

npm install --save font-awesome

import 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css';

then

<i className="fa fa-shopping-cart" style={{fontSize:24}}></i>  
        <span className="badge badge-danger" style={{position:"absolute", right:5, top:5}}>number of items in cart</span>

as 'Praveen M P' said you can install font-awesome as a package. if you have yarn you can run:

 yarn add font-awesome

If you don't have yarn do as Praveen said and do:

npm install --save font-awesome

this will add the package to your projects dependencies and install the package in your node_modules folder. in your App.js file add

import 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css'

You need to install the package first.

npm install --save react-fontawesome

OR

npm i --save @fortawesome/react-fontawesome

Don't forget to use className instead of class.

Later on you need to import them in the file where you wanna use them.

import 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css'

or

import FontAwesomeIcon from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome'

In my case I was following the documentation for react-fontawesome package, but they aren't clear about how to call the icon when setting the icons into the library

this is was what I was doing:

App.js file

import {faCoffee} from "@fortawesome/pro-light-svg-icons";
library.add(faSearch, faFileSearch, faCoffee);

Component file

<FontAwesomeIcon icon={"coffee"} />

But I was getting this error

Then I added the alias when passing the icon prop like:

<FontAwesomeIcon icon={["fal", "coffee"]} />

And it is working, you can find the prefix value in the icon.js file, in my case was: faCoffee.js

Alexander's answer from above really helped me out!

I was trying to get social accounts icons in the footer of my app I created with ReactJS so that I could easily add a hover state to them while also having them link my social accounts. This is what I ended up having to do:

$ npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-free-brands

Then at the top of my footer component I included this:

import React from 'react';
import './styles/Footer.css';
import FontAwesomeIcon from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
import {faTwitter, faLinkedin, faGithub} from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-brands';

My component then looked like this:

<a href='https://github.com/yourusernamehere'>
  <FontAwesomeIcon className ='font-awesome' icon={faGithub} />
</a>

Worked like a charm.

The simplest solution is:

Install:

npm install --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core
npm install --save @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons
npm install --save @fortawesome/react-fontawesome

Import:

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

Use:

<FontAwesomeIcon icon={ faThumbsUp }/>

You can also use the react-fontawesome icon library. Here's the link: react-fontawesome

From the NPM page, just install via npm:

npm install --save react-fontawesome

Require the module:

var FontAwesome = require('react-fontawesome');

And finally, use the <FontAwesome /> component and pass in attributes to specify icon and styling:

var MyComponent = React.createClass({
  render: function () {
    return (
      <FontAwesome
        className='super-crazy-colors'
        name='rocket'
        size='2x'
        spin
        style={{ textShadow: '0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)' }}
      />
    );
  }
});

Don't forget to add the font-awesome CSS to index.html:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.6.1/css/font-awesome.min.css">

I was experienced this case; I need the react/redux site that should be working perfectly in production.

but there was a 'strict mode'; Shouldn't lunch it with these commands.

yarn global add serve
serve -s build

Should working with only click the build/index.html file. When I used fontawesome with npm font-awesome, it was working in development mode but not working in the 'strict mode'.

Here is my solution:

public/css/font-awesome.min.css
public/fonts/font-awesome.eot 
*** other different types of files(4) ***
*** I copied these files for node_module/font-awesome ***
*** after copied then can delete the font-awesome from package.json ***

in public/index.html

<link rel="stylesheet" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/css/font-awesome.min.css">

After all of above steps, the fontawesome works NICELY!!!

After struggling with this for a while I came up with this procedure (based on Font Awesome's documentation here):

As stated, you'll have to install fontawesome, react-fontawesome and fontawesome icons library:

npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core
npm i --save @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons
npm i --save @fortawesome/react-fontawesome

and then import everything to your React app:

import { library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core'
import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome'
import { faStroopwafel } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons'

library.add(faStroopwafel)

Here comes the tricky part:

To change or add icons, you'll have to find the available icons in your node modules library, i.e.

<your_project_path>\node_modules\@fortawesome\free-solid-svg-icons  

Each icon has two relevant files: .js and .d.ts, and the file name indicates the import phrase (pretty obvious...), so adding angry, gem and check-mark icons looks like this:

import { faStroopwafel, faAngry, faGem, faCheckCircle } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons'

library.add(faStroopwafel, faAngry, faGem, faCheckCircle)

To use the icons in your React js code, use:

<FontAwesomeIcon icon=icon_name/>

The icon name can be found in the relevant icon's .js file:

e.g. for faCheckCircle look inside faCheckCircle.js for 'iconName' variable:

...
var iconName = 'check-circle'; 
... 

and the React code should look like this:

<FontAwesomeIcon icon=check-circle/> 

Goodluck!

In case you are looking to include the font awesome library without having to do module imports and npm installs, put this in the head section of your React index.html page:

public/index.html (in head section)

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"/>

Then in your component (such as App.js) just use standard font awesome class convention. Just remember to use className instead of class:

<button className='btn'><i className='fa fa-home'></i></button>

npm install --save-dev @fortawesome/fontawesome-free

in index.js

import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css';

then use icons like below :

import React, { Component } from "react";

class Like extends Component {
  state = {};
  render() {
    return <i className="fas fa-heart"></i>;
  }
}

export default Like;

If you are new to React JS and using create-react-app cli command to create the application, then run the following NPM command to include the latest version of font-awesome.

npm install --save font-awesome

import font-awesome to your index.js file. Just add below line to your index.js file

import '../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css'; 

or

import 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css';

Don't forget to use className as attribute

 render: function() {
    return <div><i className="fa fa-spinner fa-spin">no spinner but why</i></div>;
}

https://github.com/FortAwesome/react-fontawesome

install fontawesome & react-fontawesome

$ npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome
$ npm i --save @fortawesome/react-fontawesome
$ npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-free-solid
$ npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-free-regular
$ npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core

then in your component

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome'
import { faCheckSquare, faCoffee } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-solid'
import './App.css';

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <h1>
          <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faCoffee} />
        </h1>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default App;