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React - change favicon
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In this article we would like to show you how to change default favicon in React project.
Quick solution:
Change default favicon file that is located under
public/favicon.ico
path.
Its path is attached to webpage inside public/index.html
file as:
<link rel="icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico" />
Where: %PUBLIC_URL%
represents public/
directory in default configuration.
Detailed description
To change icon we can select one of the following approaches:
- Solution 1: replace
public/favicon.ico
file to new one*.ico
file
(we can change path also).
- Solution 2: use
*.png
image file.
e.g. putexample.png
file insidepublic/
folder and attach it insidepublic/index.html
file replacingfavicon.ico
withexample.png
in the path.
Note: Here you can find useful article descrbing how to convert images to a proper size.