Using FontAwesome with Nativescript-Vue

Question

I'm just not succeeding in using FontAwesome icons in my Nativescript-Vue app. If I just want to use a regular icon, it works fine:

<Label col="0" text.decode="&#xf279;" class="fa"></Label>

But when I want a Solid (or I suppose any of the others), no love.

<Label col="0" text.decode="&#xf5da;" class="fa fas"></Label>

I've looked at so many instructions now that my eyes are crossed. Today I upgraded to v5. But I don't thing I was able to get the solid ones to work before.

Answer 1

Nothing I tried from the V5 instructions seemed to work. (Maybe someone can write explicit instructions for using in Nativescript-Vue.)

But, falling back to the old way, the simple

<Label col="0" text.decode="&#xf5da;" class="fas"></Label>

with

.fas {
        font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free", "fa-solid-900";
    }

And, I must have somehow been interupted when I first set this up, because fa-solid-900 was not actually in my [app.fonts][1] folder. :-|

Not sure what all those fancy new packages I installed will do now.