Customizing react-leaflet marker icons by using font awesome

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It is more theoretical question, rather than a problem.

How to use font awesome icons as react-leaflet map marker icons?

I would like to have such an icon selector control to assign(customize) each marker icon I have got on my map. By the way I am using JSX components of Map and Marker.

Is it possible to achieve this?

Anybody have a sample pen about this? I have really googled it strongly but couldn't find any plugin but a fontawesome plugin that is working only with Leaflet 1.0.

So any idea appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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3 Answers

For some reasons code is not getting formatted. See code on code sandbox

Here is how you can use font-awesome icons as markers.

  1. Add font-awesome CDN to your index.html

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.3.1/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-mzrmE5qonljUremFsqc01SB46JvROS7bZs3IO2EmfFsd15uHvIt+Y8vEf7N7fWAU" crossorigin="anonymous">

  1. Use divIcon along with renderToStaticMarkup from react-dom/server to generate icon for marker. And pass this divIcon to Marker as a icon prop.

    import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { renderToStaticMarkup } from 'react-dom/server';
import { divIcon } from 'leaflet';
import { Map, TileLayer, Marker, Popup } from 'react-leaflet';

import './styles.css';

class App extends Component {
  state = {
    lat: 51.505,
    lng: -0.091,
    zoom: 13,
  };

render() {
    const position = [this.state.lat, this.state.lng];
    const iconMarkup = renderToStaticMarkup(<i className=" fa fa-map-marker-alt fa-3x" />);
    const customMarkerIcon = divIcon({
      html: iconMarkup,
    });

    return (
      <Map center={position} zoom={this.state.zoom}>
        <TileLayer
          attribution="&amp;copy <a href=&quot;http://osm.org/copyright&quot;>OpenStreetMap</a> contributors"
          url="https://{s}.tile.osm.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
        />
        <Marker position={position} icon={customMarkerIcon}>
          <Popup>
            A pretty CSS3 popup. <br /> Easily customizable.
          </Popup>
        </Marker>
      </Map>
    );
  }
}

const rootElement = document.getElementById('root');
ReactDOM.render(<App />, rootElement);

  2. Override divIcon default style by adding the following class to your css file

    .leaflet-div-icon {
    background: transparent;
    border: none;
}
user_52716560

For those who already use the React components of Fontawesome (FontAwesomeIcon), there is a solution that does not require importing via CDN again. It uses the same principles of Murli's answers, but instead of adding <i className=" fa fa-map-marker-alt fa-3x" />, you can convert the FontAwesomeIcon component to html and pass that into the html attribute of the divIcon. It would look like this (adapted the example of the accepted answer):

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
import Leaflet from 'leaflet'
import { Map, TileLayer, Marker, Popup } from 'react-leaflet';
import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';

import './styles.css';

// FontAwesome requirements
import { faUserAstronaut } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons'
library.add(faUserAstronaut)

class App extends Component {
  state = {
    lat: 51.505,
    lng: -0.091,
    zoom: 13,
  };

  render() {
    const position = [this.state.lat, this.state.lng];
    const iconHTML = ReactDOMServer.renderToString(<FontAwesomeIcon icon='user-astronaut' />)
    const customMarkerIcon = new Leaflet.DivIcon({
      html: iconHTML,
    });

    return (
      <Map center={position} zoom={this.state.zoom}>
        <TileLayer
          attribution="&amp;copy <a href=&quot;http://osm.org/copyright&quot;>OpenStreetMap</a> contributors"
          url="https://{s}.tile.osm.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
        />
        <Marker position={position} icon={customMarkerIcon}>
          <Popup>
            A pretty CSS3 popup. <br /> Easily customizable.
          </Popup>
        </Marker>
      </Map>
    );
  }
}

const rootElement = document.getElementById('root');
ReactDOM.render(<App />, rootElement);
user_92935060

Create divIcon and insert it into icon property:

// marker-icons.js
import L from 'leaflet';

const factory = new L.divIcon({
  className: '',
  iconAnchor: [12, 25],
  labelAnchor: [-6, 0],
  popupAnchor: [0, -15],
  iconSize: [25, 41],
  html: `<span class="fa fa-industry"></span>`
});

export default { factory };

Use icon in component file:

// component.js
import { factory } from './marker-icons';

<MapContainer center={[12.23432, 87.234]} zoom={6} scrollWheelZoom={false}>
    <TileLayer attribution='&copy; <a href="http://osm.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors' url="https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"/>
    <Marker position={45.4534, 23.43]} icon={factory}>
        <Popup>Help text</Popup>
    </Marker>
</MapContainer>

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