Want to use Laravel 8 and Font Awesome 5? (Regularly updated)

laravel-8-laravel-mix-6-font-awesome.md

Laravel asset compilation for Laravel 8 + Laravel Mix 6 + Font Awesome 5

This document provides help to get your Laravel 8 instance running with the latest versions of Laravel Mix and Font Awesome.

Steps

Before triggering Laravel Mix, we want Node.js and NPM installed on your machine. Let's check by running the following commands.

node -v
npm -v

Install Node dependencies for Laravel Mix, Autoprefixer, and PostCSS.

npm install -D laravel-mix@latest postcss@latest autoprefixer@latest

Install the latest free version of Font Awesome via the npm package manager.

npm install -D @fortawesome/fontawesome-free

Next, build your webpack.mix.js configuration. Please note that we are no longer using SASS (as we did in previous Laravel versions) to compile our CSS assets.

const mix = require('laravel-mix');

mix.setPublicPath('public');
mix.setResourceRoot('../');

mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js')
    .postCss('resources/css/app.css', 'public/css', [
]);

The following dependency entry should now be in your package.json.

"devDependencies": {
    "@fortawesome/fontawesome-free": "^5.15.3",

In /resources/css/app.css, import one or more styles depending on which icon set you are interested in using.

@import '~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/fontawesome';
@import '~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/regular';
@import '~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/solid';
@import '~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/brands';

Now, we want to update our package.json to use the new Mix CLI. Please change the "scripts" section of package.json to the following (if it isn't already updated).

"scripts": {
    "dev": "npm run development",
    "development": "mix",
    "watch": "mix watch",
    "watch-poll": "mix watch -- --watch-options-poll=1000",
    "hot": "mix watch --hot",
    "prod": "npm run production",
    "production": "mix --production"
},

Compile your assets and produce a minified, production-ready build.

npx mix -p

OR

npm run prod

Finally, reference your generated CSS file in your Blade template/layout.

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="{{ mix('css/app.css') }}">

Happy Mixing!

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Using the scss version of fontawesome i had to import the relative javascript file (all.js if you need all icons).

Into the resources dir I've created another directory called scss
Inside that dire I've created a fontawesome.scss file and put that inside:
@import "@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/fontawesome";

Then I've added directly on webpack.mix.js

.js('node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/js/all.js', 'public/js')
.sass('resources/sass/fontawesome.scss', 'public/css')

Compiled the resources
npm run dev

Lastly imported both files into my layout

<link href="{{ mix('css/font-awesome.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="{{ mix('js/all.js') }}"></script>

I don't know if it's possible to do it in a neater way like importing the js into laravel's bootstrap.js but that worked for me

Setting resource root to '../' leads to npm searching for the font files in resources/webfonts but there is no directory there as it's not copied over in your mix file above. I assume that this is also a necessary step in the build process?