Font-Awesome Fix and Caching

[jmbarne3]

• Removes the FontAwesome react component and just directly loads the kit in the head.
• Replaces the FontAwesome components with i elements and the appropriate classes.
• Adds a blanket 1 year local caching rule to all files under /assets. For JS and CSS, cache busting occurs as any updates changes the hash in the filename.

Reasons/Motivations:

• When we added the font-awesome react component, the bundled size of our JS asset went from about 250k to 11MB. There are likely ways around this bundle size, but as our use of fonts in this project is extremely simple, I've chosen to handle it the old fashion way.
• Local caching should reduce the amount of requests that make it back to Azure.

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Pull request overview

This PR simplifies Font Awesome integration by removing the React component library approach in favor of direct CDN kit loading, which reduces bundle size from ~250KB to ~11MB back down significantly. It also implements client-side caching for static assets to reduce server requests.

Changes:

• Replaced Font Awesome React components with plain <i> elements using Font Awesome CSS classes
• Added Font Awesome kit script to HTML head for CDN-based loading
• Implemented 1-year cache policy for CSS and JS assets in Azure Static Web Apps configuration
• Removed @fortawesome/react-fontawesome dependency

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
staticwebapp.config.json	Adds caching headers (1-year max-age, immutable) for CSS and JS assets
index.html	Adds Font Awesome kit CDN script to document head
src/components/LocationResults.tsx	Replaces FontAwesomeIcon components with <i> elements and removes Font Awesome imports
package.json	Removes @fortawesome/react-fontawesome dependency
package-lock.json	Removes Font Awesome React component and related peer dependency entries

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