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Having different favicons for your development and production environments can be extremely useful: you can see in a split second if you are working on the right tab in your browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you already refreshed, refreshed and refreshed again a page for 5 minutes… wondering why your changes don’t show up, and realizing that you were refreshing the live website instead of the local one, raise your hand ✋.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This won’t happen anymore with this quick JavaScript hack to display a different favicon depending on your environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Create two different favicon images<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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favicon.png and favicon_dev.png<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

👉 Note:<\/strong> a favicon image should be square (128x128px is okay), otherwise it will be distorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Use the following code<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\/\/ In the Html file header\n<link rel=\"icon\" type=\"image\/png\" href=\"favicon.png\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\/\/ in your JavaScript file\nif (location.hostname === \"localhost\" \n || location.hostname === \"127.0.0.1\" \n || location.hostname.search(\"local\") != -1) {\n    $(\"link[rel=icon]\").attr(\"href\", \"favicon_dev.png\");\n} else {\n    $(\"link[rel=icon]\").attr(\"href\", \"favicon.png\");\n}<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
👉 Note:<\/strong> the following test location.hostname.search(\"local\") != -1<\/code> matches the local aliases like http:\/\/mywebsite.com.local<\/code>. Have a look at this article on how to make an alias for a local website<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, using favicons can depend on your working environment (WordPress<\/a>, Symphony, React, …) and you can also use environment variables to do a cleaner version of this hack 😉<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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