# jantimon/favicons-webpack-plugin

Let webpack generate all your favicons and icons for you

Repository: https://github.com/jantimon/favicons-webpack-plugin
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/favicons-webpack-plugin
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-11T12:19:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3788, "days_push": 22, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1200, forks 205 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:58.078361+00:00)

## What it is
A webpack plugin that generates favicons and app icons in dozens of formats from a single logo file, leveraging the favicons library. It also produces webapp manifest files and can inject the necessary HTML link tags via html-webpack-plugin.

## Use cases
- generate favicons for all platforms from one logo in a webpack build
- create PWA webapp manifest and icons automatically
- inject apple-touch-icon and favicon link tags into HTML
- support iOS, Android, and desktop icon formats without manual resizing

## When to choose
- your project already uses webpack and needs multi-platform icons
- you want zero-config favicon generation from a single source image
- you use html-webpack-plugin and want automatic link tag injection

## When to avoid
- your build uses Vite, Rollup, or another bundler without webpack
- you need only one or two icon sizes and prefer a simple script
- you don't want the build-time cost of generating 40+ icon variants

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: stable
- function: image-processing, build-tool, plugin-system
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: -
- tags: webpack, favicon, pwa-manifest, html-webpack-plugin, icons, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- jantimon/favicons-webpack-plugin (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.078361+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:20:49.971246+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jantimon/favicons-webpack-plugin (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.078361+00:00, sha dcbc4f42325b)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/favicons-webpack-plugin (fetched 2026-08-29T12:28:12.707005+00:00, sha 4a60440a68e9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.