Integrating font awesome with Laravel (5.X) using webpack

Laravel uses laravel-mix by default which uses webpack under the hood for frontend-tooling.

We have following steps

  • Install font-awesome using npm (I assume you already have npm configured)

I am using https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts
use command from the project root directory.

npm i @fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts
  • Import font-awesome scss in app.scss (your main sass file)

Open your app.scss and copy and paste the below code:

// You might have to change the font-path, we'll come to this later
$fa-font-path:  "webfonts/" !default;
@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts/scss/fontawesome";
@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts/scss/fa-regular";
@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts/scss/fa-solid";
  • Update configuration in webpack.mix.js
mix.setPublicPath('public');
mix.setResourceRoot('../');

Regarding the configuration of mix.setResourceRoot . It’s very important to understand this configuration also see github discussion thread https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix/issues/474 to have more insights into it.

  • Compile time
npm run dev

Your output should be similar to something like shown below:

output of npm run dev

I have compiled “font-awesome” into separate css file so it’s css/font-awesome.css

  • Test configuration.

Pick the random icon that you want to use from https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery. I picked user, so I will use
“fas” – for solid icons
“fa-user” – user icon

<i class="fas fa-user"></i>
  • If everything went right then you should see user icon

Something is wrong font-awesome icon is not showing up

  • Check that fonts are generated with proper paths
  • Refresh the CSS page, sometime browser caches it
  • Try changing the fontawesome font path using $fa-font-path: “webfonts/” !default;
  • Suggestion: use npm run dev and look for compilation error, read the compilation error carefully. Sometime you’ll have to scroll up to find the actual error.
  • Follow https://fontawesome.com/get-started to get more involved instruction on font-awesome integration

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Hope this helps you integrating the font-awesome with laravel. Still having difficulty, let me know in the comment.

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