useFavicon

A simple react hook to show a dynamic favicon

Getting Started

Install and run the dev server

yarn && yarn dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Gimme the code

Open the utils/hooks/useFavicon.ts and copy that file over and boom you have it.

How to use?

Let's say we want to show FUCKYOU letter by letter in our favicon

const Example = () => {
  const [tick, setTick] = useState(0)

  useEffect(() => {
    // Tick every 1s
    const subs = setInterval(() => {
      setTick((_tick) => _tick + 1)
    }, 1000)

    return () => {
      clearInterval(subs)
    }
  }, [])

  const drawFavicon: FaviconDrawFunc = useCallback(
    (context) => {
      const array = 'FUCKYOU.'.split('')
      const idx = tick % array.length
      console.log(idx)
      if (array[idx] === '.') {
        return `https://fav.farm/?`
      }
      context.font = '180px Arial'
      context.fillStyle = '#fff'
      context.textAlign = 'center'
      context.textBaseline = 'middle'
      context.fillText(array[idx], 100, 100)

      return true
    },
    [tick]
  )

  const options = useMemo(
    () => ({
      defaultIcon: '/favicon.ico',
      autoSetIcon: true
    }),
    []
  )

  const iconURL = useFavicon(drawFavicon, options)

  return null
}

NOTE: Do remember the useCallback and useMemo because every time your draw function or options change the icon is created again

The hook returns the icon url so if you are using some library to manage head tags

Options

GitHub

https://github.com/patheticGeek/use-favicon