How can you add favicons in SvelteKit?

Adding your own favicon in SvelteKit is pretty simple. First check the src/app.html file. By default it includes a link tag in the head section with rel set to icon. The href on this tag, by default, is favicon.png. In this case replace the favicon.png file in the static folder of your project with your own favicon file. If you want to use a different file format or just change the file name, this is fine too. Just copy the new file to your static folder, then update that href to match.

What goes in the SvelteKit static folder?

The static folder in a SvelteKit project is for any files which you do not need vite or SvelteKit to process. Typically you will place your favicon and robots.txt files in here. Also if you have a PWA manifest.json file, you can drop that here to. Visitors will be able to access any files here on your published site. So static/my-file.txt will be available at https://example.com/my-file.txt.

Should you use a PNG file or ICO for your SvelteKit favicon?

Traditionally favicons were .ico files. Modern browsers can use PNG, JPG and SVG files instead and you only need a .ico file to provide support for users with quite old versions of Internet Explorer. This is great news as creating .ico files takes a little bit more work and you will typically already have a PNG or JPG logo available.

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SvelteKit Favicon: How to add a Favicon #

Updated 7 months ago

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🖼 SvelteKit Favicon #

What is the SvelteKit favicon? Favicons aren't unique to SvelteKit, they are just the little icon which appears in the browser, on the tab itself showing your site or brand logo. They are useful to help users quickly see which tab is which when they have many tabs open. In this video we see it only takes a moment to add a favicon to your SvelteKit app. All you need to follow along is your logo in a PNG file. You can use a .ico file instead though they are really only needed if you must have backwards compatibility with very old versions of Internet Explorer. In the video we create a skeleton app from scratch, though the process is similar if you are adding a favicon to an existing project. If you're reading to push pack, then let's get going!

📹 SvelteKit Favicon: Video #

SvelteKit Favicon

🖥 Code #

Spin up a Skeleton SvelteKit App #

    pnpm create [email protected] sveltekit-favicon && cd $_
pnpm install
pnpm run dev

Spin up a Skeleton SvelteKit App from the terminal.

Update Dev and Preview Server Ports #

package.json

svelte

    1 {
2   "name": "~TODO~",
3   "version": "0.0.1",
4   "scripts": {
5     "dev": "svelte-kit dev -p 3030",
6     "build": "svelte-kit build",
7     "preview": "svelte-kit preview -p 3030",
8     "lint": "prettier --check --plugin-search-dir=. . && eslint --ignore-path .gitignore .",
9     "format": "prettier --write --plugin-search-dir=. ."
10   },
11   // TRUNCATED...
12 }

Update Dev and Preview Server Ports.

🗳 Poll #

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🔗 Links #

How to create a Progressive Web App (PWA) in SvelteKit ,
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SvelteKit Favicon: Summary #

How can you add favicons in SvelteKit? #: Adding your own favicon in SvelteKit is pretty simple. First check the src/app.html file. By default it includes a link tag in the head section with rel set to icon. The href on this tag, by default, is favicon.png. In this case replace the favicon.png file in the static folder of your project with your own favicon file. If you want to use a different file format or just change the file name, this is fine too. Just copy the new file to your static folder, then update that href to match.
What goes in the SvelteKit static folder? #: The static folder in a SvelteKit project is for any files which you do not need vite or SvelteKit to process. Typically you will place your favicon and robots.txt files in here. Also if you have a PWA manifest.json file, you can drop that here to. Visitors will be able to access any files here on your published site. So static/my-file.txt will be available at https://example.com/my-file.txt.
Should you use a PNG file or ICO for your SvelteKit favicon? #: Traditionally favicons were .ico files. Modern browsers can use PNG, JPG and SVG files instead and you only need a .ico file to provide support for users with quite old versions of Internet Explorer. This is great news as creating .ico files takes a little bit more work and you will typically already have a PNG or JPG logo available.

🙏🏽 SvelteKit Favicon: Feedback #

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