In my react-native application I have added this library react-native-vector-icons to use icons. From the github page, FontAwesome is listed among the bundled icon sets. But I don't see how I can reference a fontawesome item in my element. It seems that I can only use "ios-xxx", "md-xxx" or "log-xxx".
When I try something like:
<Icon name='fa-rss' style={{marginRight:10}} />
I get this warning:
Always search for the icon name here: FontAwesome and here: Material-icons to be sure that you are using the correct name. Then simply you can use the code as:
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/FontAwesome';
<Icon name="rocket" size={30} color="#900" /> // Here use the correct
name from the first link above.
For more info refer this
Since there is a very large amount of them, and I don't want to import them all, I ended up importing each icon I need as an SVG.
Download font awesome free package https://fontawesome.com/download
add react-native-svg to your project
then paste it to your JSX file
import * as React from "react";
import { SvgXml, SvgProps } from 'react-native-svg'
const xml = `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 576 512"><path d="M470.1 231.3s7.6 37.2 9.3 45H446c3.3-8.9 16-43.5 16-43.5-.2.3 3.3-9.1 5.3-14.9l2.8 13.4zM576 80v352c0 26.5-21.5 48-48 48H48c-26.5 0-48-21.5-48-48V80c0-26.5 21.5-48 48-48h480c26.5 0 48 21.5 48 48zM152.5 331.2L215.7 176h-42.5l-39.3 106-4.3-21.5-14-71.4c-2.3-9.9-9.4-12.7-18.2-13.1H32.7l-.7 3.1c15.8 4 29.9 9.8 42.2 17.1l35.8 135h42.5zm94.4.2L272.1 176h-40.2l-25.1 155.4h40.1zm139.9-50.8c.2-17.7-10.6-31.2-33.7-42.3-14.1-7.1-22.7-11.9-22.7-19.2.2-6.6 7.3-13.4 23.1-13.4 13.1-.3 22.7 2.8 29.9 5.9l3.6 1.7 5.5-33.6c-7.9-3.1-20.5-6.6-36-6.6-39.7 0-67.6 21.2-67.8 51.4-.3 22.3 20 34.7 35.2 42.2 15.5 7.6 20.8 12.6 20.8 19.3-.2 10.4-12.6 15.2-24.1 15.2-16 0-24.6-2.5-37.7-8.3l-5.3-2.5-5.6 34.9c9.4 4.3 26.8 8.1 44.8 8.3 42.2.1 69.7-20.8 70-53zM528 331.4L495.6 176h-31.1c-9.6 0-16.9 2.8-21 12.9l-59.7 142.5H426s6.9-19.2 8.4-23.3H486c1.2 5.5 4.8 23.3 4.8 23.3H528z"/></svg>`
export const VisaIcon = (props: SvgProps) => <SvgXml xml={xml} {...props} />
Don't forget to pass width, height and fill properties to your icon.
Looking in fontAwesome, find your icon and click and details inside the class ie:
<i class="fas fa-home"></i>
have the prop fa-home use faHome in you code without '-'.
You can try to typing and the VSCode suggest the name of icon like image below:
