FontAwesome fails to load fonts locally and in electron app

Question

I have downloaded FontAwesome using npm and then copied the css-file and the fonts into the right folders in the root-diretory of my electron-application using grunts copy t

Answer 1

I had a similar issue (perhaps this answer will help someone). I use Maven to build projects (Java + JS). Maven Filter Plugin corrupted binary font files. I had to add includes and excludes:

    
        
            ${project.sources}
            true
            
                **/*.woff
                **/*.ttf
            
        
        
            ${project.sources}
            false
            
                **/*.woff
                **/*.ttf