iconify VS Font-Awesome

Icons play a vital role in the web development. They guide us, convey messages, and enhance user experiences on numerous websites and applications. Whether you are an experienced developer or a beginner in web development, having a reliable source of high-quality icons is essential. This is where Iconify comes in, providing an extensive selection of icons that will breathe life into your projects.

https://iconify.design/ has been my go to for years, but I like the ability to customize the colors from the UI, although I personally use tailwind classes for my colors

Before explaining the whole code, it is worth saying that you can get all the icons used in this tutorial are from iconify

It was positioned absolutely to the parent container and was placed at the position where it is using -bottom-8 and left-[17%], the icon use there is from iconify

Svg Icons from Iconify.

Luckily, I found that in astro you can do it easily with the astro-icon package. This package uses Iconify, an icon library that combines dozens of different icon packs into one. The most interesting icon pack for me was the SVG Logos as it includes all logos for different tech companies, programming languages, etc. Now, adding these icons is as simple as:

I've been using https://iconify.design/

the i element is the icon of the button, I'm using fontawesome.com for the icon, the class fa-apple retrives Apple icon for us.

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

1. Font Awesome

For generic icons (i.e. you just need a d6 and not a system-specific d6 option), Foundry has Font Awesome which are easy to search, then copy and insert, and always look good inline.

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.

Firstly, unlike the name https://fontawesome.com/ isn't for fonts.