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Should I use fontawesome-free or angular-fontawesome

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We are starting an Angular 6 project and want to use Font Awesome 5.1. Font Awesome provides two Node packages:

  • @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome - uses SVG with JS
  • @fortawesome/fontawesome-free - uses Web Fonts with CSS

Using SVG with JS is the new way to use Font Awesome while Web Fonts and CSS is the more classic approach. For me it seems it is a bit more hassle to use SVG with JS because you have to import each icon, but it saves file size.

We are going to be using around 30 icons in our app and are wondering which approach would be better for us.