Blade FontAwesome 5
Easily inline Font Awesome 5 icons in your Blade templates.
Heavily inspired by the great [adamwathan/blade-svg]., (*1)
Installation
You can install this package via Composer by running this command in your terminal in the root of your project:, (*2)
composer require depsimon/blade-fa5
Getting started
Publish the Blade Font Awesome 5 config file:, (*3)
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Depsimon\BladeFa5\BladeFa5ServiceProvider"
Download the Font Awesome 5 latest version (Free or Pro) and put the SVG sprites in your public/svg directory., (*4)
Configuration
Inside config/blade-fa5.php, you can specify the spritesheets directory, the default weight and the default classes for icons., (*5)
<?php
return [
'spritesheets_url' => 'svg/',
'weight' => 'far',
'class' => 'icon inline-block fill-current',
];
Basic usage
You can insert an icon anywhere in your template with the @fa5 Blade directive.
You pass the name, then the weight, the classes and any additional classes:, (*6)
@fa5('cog')
@fa5('user', 'fas') <!-- Weight is "solid" -->
@fa5('facebook', 'fab', 'text-blue') <!-- Weight is "brands" and apply "text-blue" class -->
@fa5('spinner', 'fal', 'text-grey', ['spin']) <!-- Add the "spin" attribute -->
Credits
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information., (*7)