How to include a Font Awesome icon in React's render()

Question

Whenever I try to use a Font Awesome icon in React's render(), it isn't displayed on the resulting web page although it works in normal HTML.

render: function() {
    return <div><i class="fa fa-spinner fa-spin">no spinner but why</i></div>;
}

Here is an live example: http://jsfiddle.net/pLWS3/

Where is the fault?

Answer 1

If you are new to React JS and using create-react-app cli command to create the application, then run the following NPM command to include the latest version of font-awesome.

npm install --save font-awesome

import font-awesome to your index.js file. Just add below line to your index.js file

import '../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css'; 

or

import 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css';

Don't forget to use className as attribute

 render: function() {
    return <div><i className="fa fa-spinner fa-spin">no spinner but why</i></div>;
}