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Using font-awesome icons in angular 6 inside index.html

I have successfully added a loader to my andular 6 project that will show the loader upon initial load until the app fully loads. I however cant seem to get a font awesome icon to load inside the spinner.

app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { FontAwesomeModule } from '@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome';
import { library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core';
import { fab } from '@fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

library.add(fab);

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FontAwesomeModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

src/index.html

<body>
  <abe-root>

    <div class="app-loading">
      <div class="logo"><fa-icon [icon]="['fab', 'angular']"></fa-icon></div>
      <svg class="spinner" viewBox="25 25 50 50">
        <circle class="path" cx="50" cy="50" r="20" fill="none" stroke-width="2" stroke-miterlimit="10"/>
      </svg>
    </div>

  </abe-root>
</body>

It doesn't error or anything it just doesn't show the icon? I'm fairly new to angular so i may be doing something completely wrong.

Solution

  • This wont work

      <div class="logo"><fa-icon [icon]="['fab', 'angular']"></fa-icon></div>

    as there is no app context yet.

    You can display FA fonts like this, without angular components (yet)

    <i class="fa fa-angular"></i>

    I also assume that you have incuded FA CSS in index.html head section.