Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Our current <Icon /> component is fairly inflexible - we must add SVG code every time we want to add a new icon.
Describe the solution you'd like
Let's use Font Awesome or some other free / open source alternative.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Keep as is
Additional context
See ESP site as example of Gatsby project using Font Awesome.
Maybe You can use REACT-ICONS and "IconContext" for this. It comes with simple NPM installations and supports various other Icons under one package.
REACT-ICONS comes with various icon support and it's really flexible you can check this link for reference
(https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/icons?name=bi)
@howdyAnkit thanks for the suggestion, that sounds good to me! Let's use Font Awesome icons via react-icons.
Hey, @samajammin Can you please assign this to me? if it's not claimed
@howdyAnkit thanks for offering to take this on! 馃挭
Thank you so much Sam this means a lot to me @samajammin
Solved in #1674 & #1701
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@howdyAnkit thanks for offering to take this on! 馃挭