favme

favme is a small command line utility which allows the quick creation of favicon.ico files. It's arguably a pointless tool, but was a fun little learning exercise for me; it's my first node cli tool.

As a web developer, I get sick of seeing all those 404s in my server console output, but I rarely care quite enough to go and find a real favicon.ico file early on in the development of a new site. (Yes, I know I could just touch favicon.ico, but where's the fun in that?)

favme works by copying a placeholder .favicon.ico file from your home directory into the current directory. It won't overwrite an existing favicon.ico file.

Installation

Assuming you already have node.js installed, installation couldn't be simpler:

npm install -g favme

You will then have the favme command available for use.

Use

Simply make sure a placeholder .favicon.ico file exists in your home directory and then run favme from the root of the public directory of your web application, or wherever you want the favicon.ico file to appear.