Recently, I've been setting up a local Laravel website to explore the latest features and changes in Laravel 5.6. However, I've encountered an issue while trying to integrate a Font Awesome icon into the navbar-brand of Bootstrap 4. The icon doesn't seem to load properly, as when I inspect the element in Chrome, it shows dimensions of 0x0. I even attempted to set the width and height to 90px, but the icon still refuses to display. Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>App</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ asset('css/app.css') }}">
</head>
<body>
<!-- NAVBAR -->
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-dark">
<a href="{{ route('/') }}" class="navbar-brand">
<i class="fa fa-laptop-code"></i>
</a>
<button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapsedContent">
<span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
</button>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="collapsedContent">
<ul class="navbar-nav">
<li class="nav-item active">
<a href="{{ Auth::check() ? route('home') : route('/') }}" class="nav-link">Home</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
<!-- NAVBAR -->
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-FgpCb/KJQlLNfOu91ta32o/NMZxltwRo8QtmkMRdAu8=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-Tc5IQib027qvyjSMfHjOMaLkfuWVxZxUPnCJA7l2mCWNIpG9mGCD8wGNIcPD7Txa" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</body>
</html>