Font-awesome: FontAwesome free Repo not up to date with 5.0.1

[lord-xeon]

The new version of FontAwesome on npm(v5) - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fortawesome/fontawesome has a github page that sends users to this project, which is the code for v4.7.0

This is confusing and should be updated.

[lord-xeon]

It looks like this is producing a side-effect of being unable to install v5 of FontAwesome

upon doing

npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome

from the examples given here - https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/use-with-node-js

version 4.7.0 of FontAwesome is installed.

Producing webpack errors of:

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free-solid'

[tagliala]

It looks like this is producing a side-effect of being unable to install v5 of FontAwesome

I think this is another issue, by the way the correct title should be "font awesome free repository is not up to date"

[robmadole]

@lord-xeon that says that it can't resolve @fortawesome/fontawesome-free-solid. Have you installed this? Can you share the relevant section of your yarn.lock, package.json, or NPM lock file?

[lord-xeon]

@robmadole I have since been able to fix my unresolved errors. I think it was likely because I had missed installing the free-solid package.

@tagliala I will edit the title to reflect that.

[wolfy1339]

11913 Is a duplicate of this issue

[bkimminich]

The fix for npm using the free-* repos does not work when using bower as it does not have its own project/repository conceptually but instead directly takes the releases from the corresponding GitHub repo https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.

[robmadole]

We'll get the repositories switched over as soon as we can. We aren't going to officially support Bower however as even they are encouraging people to move to NPM or Yarn.

[odahcam]

Is there anyway to use v5 without have to download the files by hand?

[tagliala]

@odahcam

1. svg + js from cdn (https://fontawesome.com/get-started/svg-with-js)
2. css from cdn (https://fontawesome.com/get-started/web-fonts-with-css)
3. node.js packages (https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/use-with-node-js#free)

[tutuca]

The docs are confusing as there is no end to end guide that includes installation and usage.

I've already installed free, free-solid and free-brands. But icons are not showing up because it seems like webpack (version 4.12.0) can't resolve the namespaced module for some reason:

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '@fortawesome/fontawesome' in '/home/tutuca/Proyectos/potaje/assets/js'

Notice how it's trying to resolve inside my assets folder instead of node_modules.

I can correctly reference anything else:

/* Globals */
import '../sass/style.scss';

import { library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome';

import $ from  'jquery';
import 'bootstrap';
import { viewport, fit } from './helpers';

It's just fontawesome that is breaking. I can post my webpack config but it isn't doing anything fancy.

[tagliala]

@tutuca could you please open a new issue, having care to follow our bug report template?