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RE: Installing favicon with serve-favicon : where's the favicon.ico file?

I installed favicon using "npm install serve-favicon". The subsequent requirement statements all show something like 

var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
app.use(favicon(__dirname + '/public/images/favicon.ico'));

...but a favicon.ico file was not installed as part of the npm install . What's up with that? Is favicon.ico just a dummy text file that I should make? Or should it have been automatically installed with everything else?

Thanks for your help!

Solution

  • You need to supply your own icon. That is basically any image, encoded into the .ico format.

    Here is a simple site that lets you upload a regular image and get the corresponding .ico verison back.