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The Font Awesome documentation shows only how to add regular/solid fonts to React. How about social icons?

First I grabbed the packages:

  npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core \
  npm i --save @fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons \
  npm i --save @fortawesome/react-fontawesome

Note: I replaced npm i --save @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons \ with npm i --save @fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons \

Then in React:

import { library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core'
import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome'
import { faFacebookF } from '@fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons' 

library.add(faFacebookF); 

And tried using a component:

<FontAwesomeIcon icon="fa-facebook-f" />

even tried:

and keep getting in the console

Could not find icon {prefix: "fas", iconName: "fa-facebook-f"}

I believe I somehow have to get the fab prefix for brands.

This is the icon I want to use https://fontawesome.com/icons/facebook-f?style=brands

Answers

Try:

<FontAwesomeIcon icon={['fab', 'facebook-f']} />

Note that font awesome now has different icon sets. The solid set (fas) is the default. The facebook icon is in the brands set (fab).