Control the favicon from a React app
http://oflisback.github.io/react-favicon
This example is available in example.
npm install react-favicon --save
- Update the favicon with a url or base64 encoded image
- Animate through a list of urls
- Toggle animation
- Alert bubbles
- Allow some favicons to be kept on the page, which may be desirable for desktop Safari
- Custom icon overlay
| Name | Type | Default | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| alertCount | number or string | null | No | Number or string to display as icon overlay. |
| alertFillColor | string | red | No | Alert bubble background color. |
| alertTextColor | string | white | No | Alert bubble text color. |
| iconSize | number | 16 | No | Size of the favicon to avoid pixelization |
| animated | boolean | true | No | True to animate favicon (for supported icons) |
| animationDelay | number | 500 | No | Time between animation frames |
| keepIconLink | function() | () => false | No | Return true to remove icon link from document head |
| renderOverlay | function(canvas, context) | null | No | Function called to to draw custom favicon overlay |
| url | string or array of strings | Yes | Favicon url or array of url:s to animate the icons |
<Favicon url={[url1, url2, url3]} />See example for the demo page source code. Basic usage is as simple as importing the react-favicon package and including a Favicon component in the react component tree.
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import Favicon from 'react-favicon'
ReactDOM.render(
<div>
<Favicon url='http://oflisback.github.io/react-favicon/img/github.ico' />
<h1>Hello, Favicon!</h1>
</div>,
document.getElementById('root')
)