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Consider alternatives to Font Awesome to improve performance
Feature description
Replace all usages of Font Awesome with a different icon package that has better performance metrics.
https://css-tricks.com/subsetting-font-awesome-to-improve-performance/#:~:text=Font%20Awesome%20is%20an%20incredibly,the%20font%20files%20it%20provides.
Options:
- https://heroicons.com/
- https://tabler.io/icons
- https://icons.getbootstrap.com/
- https://lucide.dev/
Use case
As a developer, I would like to reduce the page load time by removing Font Awesome icons, which has a tendency to have poor performance.
Prior work
No response
Daffodil version
0.83.0
Additional context
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If I'm not mistaken, the way that we use FA in Daffodil design automatically omits the unused icons from the final bundle.
What performance degredation did you see?