Cound not find icon react-fontawesome

Question

I have a project on React and I need to integrate FontAwesome to it. I found official library and installed it as instructed in readme

$ npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome
$ npm i --save @fortawesome/react-fontawesome

When I try to use it in my code like this:

<FontAwesomeIcon icon='plus'/>
<FontAwesomeIcon icon={['fa', 'coffee']}/>

I am getting this error on the console:

Could not find icon {prefix: "fas", iconName: "plus"}
Could not find icon {prefix: "fa", iconName: "coffee"}

I tried to include FontAwesome css link to head but it didn't help. I am using npm v4.6.1; node v8.9.1; react v16.2.

Answer 1

You need to add any icons you wish to use, to a "library" for easy reference.

import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import Hello from './Hello';
import fontawesome from '@fortawesome/fontawesome'
import FontAwesomeIcon from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
import { faCheckSquare, faCoffee } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-solid'

const styles = {
  fontFamily: 'sans-serif',
  textAlign: 'center',
};

fontawesome.library.add(faCheckSquare, faCoffee);

const App = () => (
  <div style={styles}>
    <FontAwesomeIcon icon="check-square" /><br /><br />
    <FontAwesomeIcon icon="coffee" />
  </div>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

Check out working code here: https://codesandbox.io/s/8y251kv448

Also, read this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fortawesome/react-fontawesome#build-a-library-to-reference-icons-throughout-your-app-more-conveniently