Install font awesome 5 with npm for scss usage

Question

like title says, I can not install font awesome 5 with npm for scss purposes.

Trying to install version 5

Accoring to https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/use-with-node-js

npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome

Looking through the installation in node_modules I see no scss file to hook up to. I tried including the styles.css file in my app.scss file but that did not work.

My setup for version 4:

package.json "font-awesome": "^4.7.0",

app.scss @import "node_modules/font-awesome/scss/font-awesome.scss";

Usage <i className="fa fa-save icon controlItem"></i>

Easy as pie. How can I achieve this with version 5?? Am I using the wrong package?

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UPDATE

Apparently, just using @fortawesome/fontawesome is not eanough. The packages have been split up so you also have to select npm install --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-free-regular Still I have no success importing it

Answer 1

npm install --save-dev @fortawesome/fontawesome
npm install --save-dev @fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons
npm install --save-dev @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons
npm install --save-dev @fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons

In your app.js or equivalent Javascript file,

import fontawesome from '@fortawesome/fontawesome'
import regular from '@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons'
import solid from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons'
import brands from '@fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons'

fontawesome.library.add(regular)
fontawesome.library.add(solid)
fontawesome.library.add(brands)

For usage, there are slight changes to the way the class names are being used. Please refer to the icons on Fontawesome site for the "full" class names.

Example

<i class="fas fa-chevron-left"></i>

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Although the idea of adding all the 3 variants of fonts into the project seems to be a convenient thing, do beware that this will slow performance when building/compiling your project. Thus, it is highly recommended that you add the fonts you need instead of everything.