Font-Awesome VS go-unsplash

Icons: Fontawesome Development: HTML, SCSS, JavaScript Deployment: Github + Netlify

1. Font Awesome

The following is an example of defining Font Awesome:

Of course, we have many different ways of solving this problem. Some of the most common include pre-existing third-party icon libraries (such as Font Awesome), icons bundled into a third-party component library (like the Kendo UI Icons), or a completely custom set of icons designed and maintained by your design team. Obviously, going 100% custom will require more work (on both the design and dev side), but might be worth it to achieve a truly unique look – or if the UI will require icons for uncommon symbols or concepts.

The featured GitHub projects are dynamically retrieved through the power of the GitHub GraphQL API. The blog posts are seamlessly pulled in using the Dev.to API. Additionally, Redis is used to cache the GitHub and Dev.to API responses for 1 hour to reduce the number of API calls. Icons are provided by Font Awesome through their kit from the CDN. I've also implemented the new View Transition API feature to enhance the user experience.

Font Awesome - (One of My Favorites)

None of the above. I love this place

relies on bootstrap for styling and uses fontawesome icons

Additionally, I am going to use Font Awesome to add icons to our project. This will make it visually appealing and add to its overall design:

From the code, we managed to generate a rectangular card with a play button (images sourced from Unsplash). Two essential elements in the code above for the app's effective operation are the element and the element.

In the root of your project, create a new folder called images and add some images. You can use the images from the example project on GitHub or you can find license free images on unsplash.

Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/)

Since I wanted to have thumbnails for each post (the file it uses is defined by the thumbnail field in the front matter), I decided to add some code that copies the files from our posts folder to the assets folder in Angular. This way, we can easily reference them in our Angular code. However, some of the image files I would download from Unsplash.com (fantastic public domain images btw) were huge and would take a few seconds to load in the browser. So, I delegated this task to gulp, where the files would first be piped to imagemin and then copied to the assets folder. This optimized the images for faster load times. My gulpfile.mjs looks like this:

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Cover Image by Fotis Fotopoulos on Unsplash

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