@marfalkov/laravel-real-favicon NPM

laravel-real-favicon

favicon generation using realfavicongenerator.net

What does this package do?

1.

Upon installation it creates a new entry in your package.json's scripts section:

{
  "scripts": {
    "generate-favicon": "node node_modules/@marfalkov/laravel-real-favicon/index.js"
  },
}

2.

Once your single source image file is ready it will generate your favicons from it.

3.

It generates a partial in resources/views/partials/favicon.blade.php

4.

It inserts an include after your meta tags into resources/views/app.blade.php:

@include('partials.favicon')

The reasoning behind this package

When do you need to generate favicons for a site? Probably when you are in the early stage of development and have the original favicon source file ready. Then later when you want to change the favicon. A laravel mix task is not an ideal solution for this purpose, so I decided to take a different approach. This task is a perfect match for an npm script that you can use only when you need it, instead of polluting your webpack.mix.js.

Usage:

1.

npm install --save-dev @marfalkov/laravel-real-favicon

2.

Put your single favicon source image file with .jpg, .png or .svg extension to /resources/favicon/original/

3.

Make sure you have an app.blade.php in resources/views
If you wish to have your main layout elsewhere or name other than app.blade.php you can change it in resources/favicon/config/options.json