Font Awesome Blade directives for Laravel

This package will render font awesome icons in your views on the server side. This removes the need to add extra JavaScript or webfont resources on the client side and in doing so reduces the size of your website significantly.

This is achieved by replacing the icons with their svg counterpart before sending the response to the client.

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.1.3
• Laravel >= 5.6

Installation

Install the package using Composer.

composer require jerodev/laravel-font-awesome 

Service Provider

The package will be auto-discovered by Laravel. If you disabled auto-discovery, you should add the following provider to your config/app.php file.

\Jerodev\LaraFontAwesome\FontAwesomeServviceProvider::class, 

Usage

To use Font Awesome icons in your view there are a few new blade directives.

// Let the package discover the best library for this icon. @fa('laravel')  // Define the library that should be used. @far('circle') // Regular @fas('circle') // Solid @fab('laravel') // Brands

When using the @fa() directive. The package will scan the different Font Awesome libraries and use the first library where it finds the icon.

The order in which the libraries are scanned is regular, brands, solid. But this can be modified in the configuration.

Middleware

This package includes a middleware that injects a minimal stylesheet into your views on render. By default, this middleware is added to the web middleware group.

If you don’t want to have the style injected automatically, you can disable middleware.all_requests in the configuration. In this case, you will have to add the middleware to selected routes yourself or add your own CSS.

The middleware you should use is \Jerodev\LaraFontAwesome\Middleware\InjectStyleSheet::class.

Configuration

The package contains a few configuration options that can be modified by first publishing the config file using the command below. This will create a fontawesome.php file in your config folder.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Jerodev\LaraFontAwesome\FontAwesomeServviceProvider" 

To Do

Currently the package only supports basic icon rendering. There is no support for special cases, such as: stacking icons or masking icons, because I never used these myself.

In the future however, I want to add these as well to make this package support the full api that is available using the Font Awesome library.