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

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

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.

Answer 2

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';

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