fontawesome-vue

This is a Vue plugin to make rendering Font Awesome 5 SVG Icons simple in Vue applications.

fontawesome-vue is SSR friendly and works easily as a plugin component for Nuxt applications.

Installation

npm install fontawesome-vue

Usage

Placing the component into a Vue application is as simple as importing it: import fa from 'fontawesome-vue' and adding the tag: <fa prefix="fab" icon="faTwitter"/>

prefix

Font Awesome 5 has seperated the icons into distinct icon packs, they are:

Font Awesome Solid - fas

Font Awesome Brands - fab

Font Awesome Regular - far

icon

The icon attribute simply takes the name of the icon you want to use, as it appears in the Font Awesome libarary-- with one exception. Instead of kebab case, use camel case. For example: faTwitter instead of fa-twitter

Nuxt

This package was developed specifically with Nuxt in mind. Setup in a Nuxt project as a plugin is quick and straightforward.

1. Plugin File

Create a file in ~/plugins called fontawesome-vue.js and add these lines of code:

import Vue from 'vue';
import fa from 'fontawesome-vue';

Vue.use(fa);

2. Nuxt Config

Add the following vendor and plugins pieces to your nuxt.config.js files:

module.exports = {
  ...
  build: {
    ...
    vendor: ['fontawesome-vue']
  },
  plugins: ['~/plugins/fontawesome-vue']
  ...
}

You will now be able to use the fa component throughout your application.