@tycrek/facked-awesome v0.1.1

facked-awesome

Font Awesome interceptor middlware thing

facked-awesome is an Express middleware for easily loading Font Awesome from the server side... as I write this, I see less reason for it to exist...

Usage

Install with npm i @tycrek/facked-awesome. In your code, simply use it as a middleware for any route you want to load your Font Awesome kit with.

// Set up your Express app as usual, then at some point:
const { facked } = require('@tycrek/facked-awesome');

// Use your Kit ID from Font Awesome. This can be found in the <script> URL they provide.
const kitId = 'abcde12345';

// Use facked as middleware
app.use('/facked.js', facked(kitId));

Now on the frontend, instead of loading your Font Awesome URL, you can load whatever path you provide here on your own server.

Buht mah perfohrmahnce!

Don't worry, facked-awesome keeps a cache of the Kit JS. If you do not want to use the cache, you can set the optional cache parameter to false.

app.use('/facked.js', facked(kitId, false /* Do not use cache */));

Does this middleware still increase processing time since it's loading the Kit JS from the server, rather than the client? Absolutely.