Replace react-icons dependency with official Font Awesome React component

[jjhampton]

Feature

Why is this feature being added?

We are currently using the react-icons to include Font Awesome icons in the front-end. That library is no longer being maintained, and also is missing some of the newer icons that are included in Font Awesome 5.

Font Awesome now provides an official React component that can replace this: https://github.com/FortAwesome/react-fontawesome . This will allow us to have access to all Font Awesome icons, and also allow use the official component which continues to be maintained.

The official FA React component uses a simple declarative syntax: <FontAwesomeIcon icon="coffee"/>

What should your feature do?

• Update dependencies in package.json
• Replace implementations of the old react-icons dependency with the new Font Awesome React component.

[dave5801]

@jjhampton Is this issue still open?

[jjhampton]

@dave5801 Yes, however it's currently assigned and has a PR that has been submitted and is waiting in the backlog for review/approval.