What is the difference on this library with the official FontAwesome from fortawesome?

[mochadwi]

I read that https://docs.fontawesome.com/web/use-with/react-native it use fortawesome instead of this dependencies. what makes it differs?

I also notice that in Android cannot use any FontAwesome5 style: solid, light always pointed out to solid style when using this library, not found on any issues about this part tho.

We're using: 9.1.0 & RN: 0.68.2 atm

[johnf]

@mochadwi It's mainly a difference in choice of approach.
fortawesome uses SVGs. This has the advantage that only the fonts you use are included in your application bundle, so it keeps down the size, but the disadvantage is that you have to import each icon manually.
RNVI uses a TrueType font, which means you can just specify the icon you want without manually importing it at the cost of having the entire font shipped with your application.

I suspect your issue with solid vs light is that the light font is in the pro version, you have to purchase font awesome and follow the instructions to use pro