Favicon won't show, seems to be issue with webpack

Question

I've got a React/Redux app and I'm using webpack to transpile my JSX and ES6 and load my stylesheets and images into my JS. My dev server is hosted on port 3000.

Here's my webpack.config.js:

var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  devtool: 'cheap-module-eval-source-map',
  entry: [
    'webpack-hot-middleware/client',
    './src/js'
  ],
  output: {
    path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist'),
    filename: 'bundle.js',
    publicPath: '/static/'
  },
  plugins: [
    new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(),
    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
    new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin(),
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      favicon: 'src/images/favicon.ico'
    })
  ],
  module: {
    loaders: [{
      test: /\.js$/,
      loaders: [ 'babel' ],
      exclude: /node_modules/,
      include: __dirname
    }, {
      test: /\.less?$/,
      loaders: [ 'style', 'css', 'less' ],
      include: __dirname
    },
    {
      test: /\.(otf|eot|svg|ttf|woff|woff2)(\?v=[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])?$/,
      loaders: [ 'url' ],
      include: __dirname
    },
    {
      test: /\.(png|ico|gif)?$/,
      loaders: [ 'file' ],
      include: __dirname
    }]
  }
};

When I hit localhost:3000, everything that I would expect to be there is there, except my favicon. If I go to localhost:3000/static/favicon.ico, my favicon is there. Could use some expertise debugging this issue.

Answer 1

The browser will look for your favicon in localhost:3000/favicon.ico, so that's where it needs to be. Try rewriting the url to serve favicon.ico for the /favicon.ico route. For example, if you're using historyApiFallback, do:

historyApiFallback: {
    rewrites: [
        // shows favicon
        { from: /favicon.ico/, to: '[path/to/favicon]' }
    ]
}