is font-awesome actually used

[jameshadfield]

The font-awesome CSS has been part of auspice from the very beginning, and thanks to #826 is now bundled as part of the auspice distribution.

I don't believe we actually use these styles in auspice & they should therefore be removed. Needs double checking as there may be something i've missed here.

In general, the styling in auspice is too complicated and reflects a project which has grown over the years without a prescribed way of handling styles. But this is a separate issue 😉

[trvrb]

Uses that I could find with a fa fa- grep:

• https://github.com/nextstrain/auspice/blob/master/src/components/framework/footer.js#L381
• https://github.com/nextstrain/auspice/blob/master/src/components/framework/sidebar-chevron.js#L23
• https://github.com/nextstrain/auspice/blob/master/src/components/framework/sidebar-toggle.js#L47-L55

Generally, I like having Font Awesome available when I'm working on UI. I know that FA icons can be directly included as SVG elements, but this is rather tedious when developing. I'll try to look to see how many kb in the webpack dropping Font Awesome would save.

[jameshadfield]

Ahh yes, we do use it. I've been a fan of react-icons in other projects which allows you to do things like

import { ICON_NAME } from "react-icons/fa";

Given that we are using it, this issue is very low priority.

[jameshadfield]

Closing as this is listed in #702