Loading FontAwesome via Webpack: Fonts do not load
I'm trying to understand how to load fonts via fontawsome when loading them through a scss file:
this is my webpack config:
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const UrlLoader = require('url-loader');
const BrowserSyncPlugin = require('browser-sync-webpack-plugin');
const VueLoaderPlugin = require('vue-loader/lib/plugin');
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');
const OptimizeCSSAssetsPlugin = require('optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin');
publicFolder = path.resolve(__dirname, 'public');
// appFolder = path.resolve(__dirname, 'app');
module.exports = {
entry: {
// Selects main js file
main: './public/es6/index.js'
},
output: {
// Main path for the js folder
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'public/js/'),
// Select teh name the main js file (after compression)
filename: 'bundle.js',
// Public path
// publicPath: 'http://localhost:8080',
publicPath: '/public/js/',
// Name the chunkFile (in case of external scripts)
chunkFilename: '[name].[contenthash].js'
},
module: {
rules: [ // Vue Files
{
test: /\.vue$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: 'vue-loader',
options: {
loader: {
scss: 'vue-style-loader!css-loader!sass-loader',
css: 'vue-style-loader!css-loader'
}
}
},
// JS files
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: {
loader: "babel-loader"
}
},
// CSS / SASS files
{
test: /\.(sa|sc|c)ss$/,
// test: /\.scss$/,
use: [
{
loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
},
{
loader: 'css-loader',
options: {
url: false,
minimize: true,
sourceMap: true
}
},
{
loader: 'postcss-loader'
},
{
loader: 'sass-loader',
options: {
sourceMap: true,
minimize: true
}
}
]
},
// Forgot why I need this...
{
test: /\.(png|gif|jpe|jpg|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)(\?.*$|$)/,
use: [{
loader: 'url-loader',
options: {
limit: 100000
}
}]
}
]
},
plugins: [
// Load jQuery globally
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
$: 'jquery',
jQuery: 'jquery',
'window.jQuery': 'jquery'
}),
// Hot module
// new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
// BrowserSync: Load page automatically on change
new BrowserSyncPlugin({
proxy: 'https://potato.mywebsite.com/',
port: 3000,
files: [
'**/*.php'
],
ghostMode: {
clicks: false,
location: false,
forms: false,
scroll: false
},
minify: false,
injectChanges: true,
logFileChanges: true,
logLevel: 'debug',
logPrefix: 'webpack',
notify: true,
reloadDelay: 0
}),
// Provides a way to customize how progress is reported during a compilation
new webpack.ProgressPlugin(),
// Loads Vue
new VueLoaderPlugin(),
// For webpack-dev-server (currently not in use)
// new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
// Handle css in different files (scss file in login.js for example to a hashed login.css file)
new MiniCssExtractPlugin({ filename: '../css/[name].css' }),
// CSS assets during the Webpack build and will optimize \ minimize the CSS
new OptimizeCSSAssetsPlugin({}),
// Not sure if needed yet
new webpack.NamedModulesPlugin()
],
devServer: {
// https: true,
headers: { 'Access-Controll-Allow-Origin': '*' },
compress: true,
quiet: true,
hot: true,
inline: true
}
};
And this is my SCSS file where I load FontAwesome (and others)..
@import 'variable';
// Colors
@import 'colors/default';
@import 'colors/green';
@import 'colors/megna';
@import 'colors/purple';
@import 'colors/red';
@import 'colors/blue';
@import 'colors/blue-dark';
@import 'colors/default-dark';
@import 'colors/green-dark';
@import 'colors/red-dark';
@import 'colors/megna-dark';
@import 'colors/purple-dark';
// Import Bootstrap source files
@import "../../node_modules/bootstrap/scss/bootstrap";
// This is for the icons
@import '../assets/icons/font-awesome/css/fontawesome-all.css';
@import '../assets/icons/simple-line-icons/css/simple-line-icons.css';
@import '../assets/icons/weather-icons/css/weather-icons.min.css';
@import '../assets/icons/themify-icons/themify-icons.css';
@import '../assets/icons/flag-icon-css/flag-icon.min.css';
@import "../assets/icons/material-design-iconic-font/css/material-design-iconic-font.min.css";
// This is the core files
@import 'core/core';
@import 'widgets/widgets';
@import 'responsive';
// In This scss you can write your scss
@import 'custom';
When running npm run dev (or others) i don't get any error mentioning fonts.
When loading my website I get these URLS refrences in the "network" pannel:
https://mywebsite.potato.com/public/webfonts/fa-regular-400.woff
https://mywebsite.potato.com/public/fonts/Simple-Line-Icons.ttf?-i3a2kk
pointing on font files that don't even exist in my directory (or at least do't get created..)
How do I load fonts properly?
EDIT:
Adding this for @FabioCosta
{
test: /\.(png|gif|jpe|jpg|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)(\?.*$|$)/,
use: [
{
loader: 'file-loader',
options: {
name: '[name].[ext]',
// name: '[path][name].[ext]',
outputPath: '/public/fonts/',
publicPath: '/public/fonts/'
}
}
]
}
Adding the full module part:
module: {
rules: [ // Vue Files
{
test: /\.vue$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: 'vue-loader',
options: {
loader: {
scss: 'vue-style-loader!css-loader!sass-loader',
css: 'vue-style-loader!css-loader'
}
}
},
// JS files
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: {
loader: "babel-loader"
}
},
// CSS / SASS files
{
test: /\.(sa|sc|c)ss$/,
// test: /\.scss$/,
use: [
{
loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
},
{
loader: 'css-loader',
options: {
url: false,
minimize: true,
sourceMap: true
}
},
{
loader: 'postcss-loader'
},
{
loader: 'sass-loader',
options: {
sourceMap: true,
minimize: true
}
}
]
},
{
test: /\.(png|gif|jpe|jpg|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)(\?.*$|$)/,
use: [
{
loader: 'file-loader',
options: {
// name: '[path][name].[ext]',
name: '[name].[ext]',
outputPath: '/public/fonts/',
publicPath: '/public/fonts/'
}
}
]
}
Tried following: https://chriscourses.com/blog/loading-fonts-webpack and doesn't seem to work.
Adding CSS screentshot
Answer
UPDATE
With base on the github files, you are targeting the unchanged css on the php file. That will not be parsed by webpack, remove it.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css">
If you run npm run build your entry point is the JS file, this will be the parsed JS file though webpack that will generate all your files and will need to be included.
Then you are using mini css extract plugin to copy your css to somewhere, you need to load that file. By your current configuration it is saving one level up on a css folder:
new MiniCssExtractPlugin({ filename: '../css/[name].css' }),
Whatever this file outputs is what you should be loading not the original main.css, so by your current folder structure this file would be on one level UP path. Not in the public/css that you are probably expecting, if I am not mistaken if you use ./css/[name].css it should output to where you are expecting.
As a side note here, it seems you are using the same folder for the source and output. Try to move to separated folders just so you don't overwrite anything unwillingly.
Finally the fonts: The test of the loader needs to match your font
src: url("../webfonts/fa-brands-400.eot");
does not match the test:
test: /\.(png|gif|jpe|jpg|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)(\?.*$|$)/,
You probably want to make that last part optional
test: /\.(png|gif|jpe|jpg|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)(\?.*$|$)?/,
also your css-loader has url=false so the font resolver would never be invoked. Remove the url: false from your loader. Then is just a case of playing with the options of the file-loader, you can change the public-path to go to whatever you store your files and they would be replaced on the generated css and output path to copy them to the desired location.
So to summarise:
- Check if you are importing the right css file, rename the file and see where it lands if you need assurance
- If you want the url and the loader to be replaced , remove the url:false from css-loader and ensure the fonts files regex is matching them.
- To avoid confusion store all the output on separated folder and check what lays where.
First answer:
If you are already using font-awesome and webpack I would suggest you use the font-awesome-loader.
That would be the easiest way to load them but a deeper explanation is that basically for every file extension webpack requires a loader to handle it. It will handle the file appropriately and put its contents somewhere.
So the steps to make webpack load the fontawesome fonts are:
- Install the font awesome package in your project (or have the assets on some fixed place).
Load the font files using some loader like below
module.exports = { module: { loaders: [ // the file-loader will copy the file and fix the appropriate url { test: /\.(ttf|eot|svg|woff(2)?)(\?v=[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])?$/, loader: "file-loader", options: { name: "[name].[ext]", outputPath: "fonts/", publicPath: "../fonts/" } } ] } };Load the appropriate CSS/SCSS/LESS from font-awesome on your css.
So analysing your code on this part:
// Forgot why I need this...
{
test: /\.(png|gif|jpe|jpg|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)(\?.*$|$)/,
use: [{
loader: 'url-loader',
options: {
limit: 100000
}
}]
}
You decided to load all these extensions through url-loader so they would become base64 URIs.
You loaded all font awesome css here
@import '../assets/icons/font-awesome/css/fontawesome-all.css';
If you check the CSS it is referencing the files by a given path and you choose the url-loader so the path will not match. If you change to the file-loader and make the options match the appropriate path it will copy the files there and you should be all set to go.