<ngx-avatar>

A universal avatar component for Angular 2+ 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
• 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-avatar in your angular application.

Check out this link to play with ngx-avatar 😀

Installation

Install avatar component using NPM::

$ npm install ngx-avatar --save

Or download as ZIP.

Usage

1. Import AvatarModule :

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

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

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

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

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

2. Start using it:

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

<ngx-avatar></ngx-avatar>

Examples

<ngx-avatar facebookId="1508319875"></ngx-avatar>
<ngx-avatar googleId="1508319875"></ngx-avatar>
<ngx-avatar twitterId="1508319875"></ngx-avatar>
<ngx-avatar skypeId="1508319875"></ngx-avatar>
<ngx-avatar gravatarId="adde9b2b981a8083cf084c63ad86f753"></ngx-avatar>
<ngx-avatar gravatarId="[email protected]"></ngx-avatar>
<ngx-avatar src="assets/avatar.jpg"></ngx-avatar>
<ngx-avatar name="John Doe"></ngx-avatar>
<ngx-avatar value="75%"></ngx-avatar>

<ngx-avatar facebookId="userFacebookID" skypeId="userSkypeID"
 googleId="google" name="Haithem Mosbahi" src="assets/avatar.jpg"
 value="28%"  twitterId="twitter"
 gravatarId="adde9b2b981a8083cf084c63ad86f753" 
 size="100" [round]="true">
</ngx-avatar>

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

Demo

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

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

To run the demo application :

$ npm install
$ ng serve

Options

Attribute	Type	Default	Description
facebookId	string		Facebook ID
googleId	string		Google ID
twitterId	string		Twitter Handle
vkontakteId	string		VK ID
skypeId	string		Skype ID
gravatarId	string		email or md5 email related to gravatar
githubId	string		Github ID
src	string		Fallback image to use
name	string		Will be used to generate avatar based on the initials of the person
value	string		Show a value as avatar
initialsSize	number	undefined	Restricts the size of initials - it goes along with the name property and can be used to fix the number of characters that will be displayed as initials.
bgColor	string	random	Give the background a fixed color with a hex like for example #FF0000
fgColor	string	#FFF	Give the text a fixed color with a hex like for example #FF0000
size	number	50	Size of the avatar
textSizeRatio	number	3	For text based avatars the size of the text as a fragment of size (size / textSizeRatio)
round	boolean	true	Round the avatar corners
borderCorner	number	0	Square avatars can have rounded corners using this property
borderColor	string	undefined	Add border with the given color. boder's default style is '1px solid borderColor'
style	object		Style that will be applied on the root element
clickOnAvatar	Output		Fired when the avatar is clicked. The component emits the source object that has been used to fetch the avatar.

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 backgroud color of the avatar. Thus, it's possible to chnage 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.

At this moment, the AvatarConfig object has one parameter which is the avatarColors. In future releases, we will probably enrich this object to override more options ( such as the source priority )

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,AvatarConfig } from "ngx-avatar";
import { HttpModule } from "@angular/http";

const avatarConfig = new AvatarConfig(['red','blue','pink']);

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    HttpModule,
    // import AvatarModule in your app with your own configuration
    AvatarModule.forRoot(avatarConfig)
  ],
  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 wether 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-avatar style :

  <ngx-avatar class="my-avatar" value="HM"> </ngx-avatar>

Your css file might look like this

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

Release Notes & History

• 2.9 : Bug fixes #16 & #16
• 2.8 : add initials size option
• 2.7 : code refactoring
• 2.6 : Customize avatar options
• 2.5 : Bug fixes & new css classes
• 2.4 : Refactor async sources
• 2.3 : Add support for github avatar
• 2.2 : Fix prod and aot build
• 2.1 : Bug fixes
• 2.0 : add support to vkontakte source
• 1.4 : background color is now generated based on the sum of ASCII values of avatar's text.
• 1.3 : Bug Fixes ( support dynamic avatar data )
• 1.2 : Add border related properties.
• 1.1 : Listen to click events on avatar and support retina display.
• 1.0 : Avatar component that fetches / generates user avatar from different sources.

Development

To generate all *.js, *.d.ts and *.metadata.json files:

$ npm run build

To lint all *.ts files:

$ npm run lint

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 :D

License

MIT © Haithem Mosbahi