Font-awesome not loading icon in Bootstrap

Question

I am trying to do a simple require of Bootstrap and Font-awesome with Webpack. I managed to load Bootstrap CSS but Font-awesome is not working properly.

This is what I get as result:

My codes are given below. What is the wrong thing I am doing here?

Resource: Github code available here.

package.json

{
  "name": "",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "start": "webpack -w"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "devDependencies": {
    "css-loader": "^0.21.0",
    "expose-loader": "^0.7.0",
    "file-loader": "^0.8.4",
    "style-loader": "^0.13.0",
    "url-loader": "^0.5.6",
    "webpack": "^1.12.2"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "admin-lte": "^2.3.2",
    "bootstrap": "^3.3.5",
    "bootstrap-webpack": "0.0.5",
    "exports-loader": "^0.6.2",
    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "^0.8.2",
    "font-awesome": "^4.4.0",
    "font-awesome-webpack": "0.0.4",
    "imports-loader": "^0.6.5",
    "jquery": "^2.1.4",
    "less": "^2.5.3",
    "less-loader": "^2.2.1"
  }
}

Entry point: index.js

var $ = require('jquery');

require('expose?$!expose?jQuery!jquery');

require("bootstrap-webpack");
require('./node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css');

require('./resources/css/style.css');


$('h1').html('<i class="fa fa-bars"></i> this is bootstrap');
console.log('hi there');

Webpack config file webpack.config.js

module.exports = {

    entry: './index.js',
    output: {
        path: 'public/assets/',
        filename: 'bundle.js'
    },
    devtool: 'source-map',
    module: {
        loaders: [

            {test: /\.css$/, loader: "style!css!" },
            { test: /\.less$/, loader: "style!css!less!" },

            //bootstrap
            {test: /\.(woff|woff2)(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: 'url?limit=10000&mimetype=application/font-woff'},
            {test: /\.ttf(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: 'url?limit=10000&mimetype=application/octet-stream'},
            {test: /\.eot(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: 'file'},
            {test: /\.svg(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: 'url?limit=10000&mimetype=image/svg+xml'},

            //font-awesome
            { test: /\.woff(2)?(\?v=[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])?$/, loader: "url-loader?limit=10000&minetype=application/font-woff" },
            { test: /\.(ttf|eot|svg)(\?v=[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])?$/, loader: "file-loader" }



        ]
    },

} 

Answer 1

Check your F12 debug console and see web browser details about error for the given files.

Your web server is not serving .woff and .woff2 files with correct mime type, and therefore they are not loaded at all from browser-client perspective.

You need to modify web-server side to add support for .woff files, for instance on IIS Express in Web.config you should have:

  <system.webServer>
    <staticContent>
      <mimeMap fileExtension="woff" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension="woff2" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
    </staticContent>
  </system.webServer>

and inside webpack.config.js you should have module loader like

    {
        test: /\.woff($|\?)|\.woff2($|\?)|\.ttf($|\?)|\.eot($|\?)|\.svg($|\?)/,
        loader: 'url-loader'
    }