How can I use fontawesome icons in a laravel application using vite? - laravel

Question

I have installed #fortawesome/fontawesome-free package using npm. The latest Laravel application uses vite by default. I am unable to solve this issue. Any help would be much appreciated. My vite.config.js is
import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
import laravel from 'laravel-vite-plugin';
import { viteStaticCopy } from 'vite-plugin-static-copy';
export default defineConfig({
plugins: [
laravel([
'resources/css/app.css',
'resources/js/app.js',
'resources/admin/css/app.css',
'resources/admin/js/app.js',
'resources/css/glide.css',
'resources/js/glide.js',
'resources/js/Sortable.js',
'resources/js/tinymce.js',
'resources/sass/app.scss',
'resources/admin/sass/app.scss',
]),
{
name: 'blade',
handleHotUpdate({ file, server }) {
if (file.endsWith('.blade.php')) {
server.ws.send({
type: 'full-reload',
path: '*',
});
}
},
},
viteStaticCopy({
targets: [
{
src: 'node_modules/#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/webfonts',
dest: '',
},
],
}),
],
});
I imported fontawesome scss files in app.scss. My app.scss file contains
#import "#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/fontawesome";
#import "#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/brands";
#import "#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/regular";
#import "#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/solid";
#import "#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/v4-shims";
I tried using a third party library https://github.com/sapphi-red/vite-plugin-static-copy to copy webfonts of fontawesome package. Is there a better way than this?

Answer 1

I solved it by first installing sass pre-processor:
npm install -D sass
after that I imported all fontawesome scss files into my app.js file:
import './bootstrap';
import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/fontawesome.scss';
import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/brands.scss';
import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/regular.scss';
import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/solid.scss';
import '#fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/v4-shims.scss';
import Alpine from 'alpinejs';
window.Alpine = Alpine;
Alpine.start();

Answer 2

It is quite easy if you are not adding it via npm. Copy entire fontawesome dir into resources dir (/resources/fontawesome), then declare variable in your scss file like (assuming you are doing it in a file inside /resources/sass:
$fa-font-path: '../fontawesome/webfonts';
and import fontawesome files:
#import '../fontawesome/scss/brands';
#import '../fontawesome/scss/solid';
#import '../fontawesome/scss/light';
#import '../fontawesome/scss/fontawesome';
Build script will copy files to your /public/build/assets dir and change urls and dev script will load them from your resources dir.