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danawoodman / react-fontawesome

A React Font Awesome component.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-fontawesome
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What's the differences with react-fa? #14

Closed andreypopp closed 8 years ago

andreypopp commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/andreypopp/react-fa

danawoodman commented 8 years ago

Hey @andreypopp! I actually was inspired by your project when I started this one. The main difference as I see it is react-fontawesome does not require any dependencies, especially the WebPack dependency. I initially couldn't use WebPack on a particular project and wanted something similar to what you created. I now use WebPack heavily but I still like not having the component import it's own version of font-awesome CSS which is stuck a particular version range. I think your project is awesome tho!

andreypopp commented 8 years ago

Well, you always could use react-fa without webpack: import Icon from 'react-fa/lib/Icon' and that's it. I'm just don't see the reason to create an identical package, even without first approaching the authors of already existent alternative to describe a use-case which differs slightly from the original one.

danawoodman commented 8 years ago

@andreypopp this isn't obvious when using your project as it's not documented anywhere but in retrospect I could have contacted you about the matter. I don't see a major issue with having other choices out there but I understand your perspective.