Install Font Awesome 5 with NPM

Question

I am working with Angular(6) application, and I am trying to use FA icons, and drop-down with no luck. I am successfully using FA(4) icons, like:

Answer 1

Alternatively, you can install fontawesome as a module in your js code.

Steps:

1. npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-free --save
2. in your javascript code import the all.js file as instructed at the very bottom of the instructions here.

import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/js/all.js';

- or -

require('@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/js/all.js');