# react-fontawesome [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fortawesome/react-fontawesome) > Font Awesome React component using SVG with JS - [Documentation](#documentation) - [How to Help](#how-to-help) - [Contributors](#contributors) - [Releasing this project (only project owners can do this)](#releasing-this-project-only-project-owners-can-do-this) ## Documentation `react-fontawesome` now supports `forwardRef` for version `0.2.x` or above. This was a breaking change so if you are using React older than version 16.3.0 choose the `0.1.x` version of this component. ## Compatibility | React version | react-fontawesome version | | - | - | | < 16.3.0 | 0.1.x | | >= 16.3.0 | 0.2.x | Official documentation is hosted at fontawesome.com: [Check it out here](https://fontawesome.com/v6/docs/web/use-with/react/) ## How to Help Review the following docs before diving in: - [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) - [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) And then: 1. Check the existing issue and see if you can help! ## Contributors The following contributors have either helped to start this project, have contributed code, are actively maintaining it (including documentation), or in other ways being awesome contributors to this project. **We'd like to take a moment to recognize them.** | Name | GitHub | | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Nate Radebaugh | [@NateRadebaugh](https://github.com/NateRadebaugh) | | Kirk Ross | [@kirkbross](https://github.com/kirkbross) | | Prateek Goel | [@prateekgoel](https://github.com/prateekgoel) | | Naor Torgeman | [@naortor](https://github.com/naortor) | | Matthew Hand | [@mmhand123](https://github.com/mmhand123) | | calvinf | [@calvinf](https://github.com/calvinf) | | Bill Parrott | [@chimericdream](https://github.com/chimericdream) | | Mike Lynch | [@baelec](https://github.com/baelec) | | Lukáš Rod | [@rodlukas](https://github.com/rodlukas) | | Proudust | [@proudust](https://github.com/proudust) | | Tiago Sousa | [@TiagoPortfolio](https://github.com/TiagoPortfolio) | | Alexey Victorov | [@AliMamed](https://github.com/AliMamed) | | Calum Smith | [@cpmsmith](https://github.com/cpmsmith) | | squiaios | [@squiaios](https://github.com/squiaios) | | WyvernDrexx | [@WyvernDrexx](https://github.com/WyvernDrexx) | | Font Awesome Team | [@FortAwesome](https://github.com/orgs/FortAwesome/people)| If we've missed someone (which is quite likely) submit a Pull Request to us and we'll get it resolved. ## Releasing this project (only project owners can do this) See [DEVELOPMENT.md](DEVELOPMENT.md#release)