<ngx-avatars>

NPM Project

ngx-avatars

Warning

Do not confuse with ngx-avatar This project is it's spiritual successor, and all credit goes to HaithemMosbahi and his fellow contributors which will remain in this project's contributing list.

The intention of this project is to maintain and evolve the solution due to the original owner not working actively on it anymore.

Description

A universal avatar component for Angular applications that fetches / generates avatar based on the information you have about the user. The component has a fallback system that if for example an invalid Facebook ID is used it will try google ID and so on.

You can use this component whether you have a single source or a multiple avatar sources. In this case the fallback system will fetch the first valid avatar.

Moreover, the component can shows name initials or simple value as avatar.

Supported avatar sources:

• Facebook
• Google
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Vkontakte (VK)
• Skype
• Gravatar
• GitHub
• Custom image
• name initials
• value

The fallback system uses the same order as the above source list, Facebook has the highest priority, if it fails, google source will be used, and so on.

If you enjoy watching videos, check out this tutorial on medium which explains how to use ngx-avatars in your angular application.

Check out this link to play with ngx-avatars 😀

Installation

Install avatar component using Yarn:

$ yarn add ngx-avatars

or

$ npm install ngx-avatars --save

Usage

1. Import AvatarModule:

Once you have installed ngx-avatars, you can import it in your AppModule:

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

// Import your AvatarModule
import { AvatarModule } from 'ngx-avatars';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    HttpClientModule,
    // Specify AvatarModule as an import
    AvatarModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

• HttpClientModule is mandatory in order to fetch the avatar from external sources (Gravatar, Google, ...).

2. Start using it:

Once the AvatarModule is imported, you can start using the component in your Angular application:

Examples

Check out this file for more examples on how to use ngx-avatars in your application.

Demo

Check out this link for a live demo. Also, you can play with ngx-avatars using an online editor here on stackblitz.

Moreover, the demo folder contains an application generated with angular cli that uses ngx-avatars component.

To run the demo application :

$ yarn install
$ ng serve

Options

The source object has the following properties:

• sourceType : avatar source ( Facebook, twitter, etc)
• sourceId : identifier of the user
• getAvatar(size) : method to fetch user avatar from the current source

Override Avatar Configuration

The avatar module provides the possibility of customizing the avatar component by overriding some of its options. For example, the avatar module comes with a set of default colors used to randomly fill the background color of the avatar. Thus, it's possible to change the default list of colors and to pass your own list.

All you need to do is to configure the AvatarModule by calling forRoot method. The forRoot method takes an AvatarConfig Object that contains the overridden options.

AvatarConfig interface has two properties:

• avatarColors: allows the user to override the default avatar colors by providing a new set of colors
• sourcePriorityOrder: allows the user to change the avatar source priority order. If you want the avatar component to look for user initials first, twitter before facebook or any order you want, this is can be done using the sourcePriorityOrder property

The following code shows an example on how to import the AvatarModule with your own source priority order. With the given order, the avatar component will look first for the custom avatar image and then for user initials and after that it will look the rest of sources.

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClientModule } from "@angular/common/http";

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { UserService } from "./user.service";
import { AvatarModule, AvatarSource } from 'ngx-avatars';

const avatarSourcesOrder = [AvatarSource.CUSTOM, AvatarSource.INITIALS];

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    HttpClientModule,
    // import AvatarModule in your app with your own configuration
    AvatarModule.forRoot({
      sourcePriorityOrder: avatarSourcesOrder
    })
  ],
  providers: [UserService],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Here's an example on how to import the AvatarModule with your own set of colors.

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { UserService } from "./user.service";
import { AvatarModule } from "ngx-avatars";
import { HttpClientModule } from "@angular/common/http";

const avatarColors = ["#FFB6C1", "#2c3e50", "#95a5a6", "#f39c12", "#1abc9c"];

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    HttpClientModule,
    // import AvatarModule in your app with your own configuration
    AvatarModule.forRoot({
      colors: avatarColors
    })
  ],
  providers: [UserService],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Avatar Styling

In addition to the style attribute, ngx-avatar style can be customized using css classes. Thus, the generated code offers two css classes that can be overridden :

• avatar-container : class that represents the avatar container - the host element. Styles in this class will be applied on the avatar whether is an image or text.
• avatar-content : css class that represents the avatar element which is embedded inside the avatar-container.

To overcome Angular's view encapsulation, you may need to use the /deep/ operator to target it. Here's an example that shows how to override ngx-avatars style :

Your css file might look like this

.my-avatar /deep/ .avatar-content {
    background-color : red !important;
}

Release Notes & History

• 1.7.0: Migrate to Angular V17
• 1.6.1: Migrate to Angular V16
• 1.6.1: Migrate to Angular V16
• 1.6.0: Migrate to Angular V16
• 1.5.0: Migrate to Angular V15
• 1.4.0: Migrate to Angular V14
• 1.3.2: Add referrerpolicy configuration to img tag. Update dependencies. Remove codelyzer.
• 1.3.1: Update dependencies
• 1.3.0: Added ability to disable src cache.
• 1.2.1: Updated several dependencies. Update Angular minor version. Add Husky Git Hooks. Migrate from TSLint to ESLint
• 1.2.0: Migrate Angular to V13. Migrate RXJS to V7.4.0
• 1.1.3: Fix package versioning in release
• 1.1.2: Fixed build issues.
• 1.1.1: Fix package versioning in release
• 1.1.0: Update Angular to V 12
• 1.0.2: Fix production build and publish to npm registry
• 1.0.1: Update dependencies and project structure
• 1.0.0: Initial migration from ngx-avatar

Contributing

Contributions and all possible collaboration are welcome.

• Fork it!
• Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
• Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
• Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
• Submit a pull request 😄

Testing

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 11.2.3.

Development server

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to https://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Code scaffolding

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the --prod flag for a production build.

Running unit tests

Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

Further help

To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.

License

MIT © Tiago Casinhas