vue-boring-avatars

vue-boring-avatars is a Vue 3 port of Boring Avatars, a JS library that generates custom, SVG-based avatars from any username and color palette.

Features

• Supports Vue 3 (for Vue 2, look at this implementation).
• Built using TypeScript and comes with TS types.
• Similar API with the React version of Boring Avatars.

Installation

NPM:

yarn add vue-boring-avatars

# or

npm install vue-boring-avatars

CDN:

<!-- UMD version -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue-boring-avatars/dist/vue-boring-avatars.umd.js"></script>

<!-- ESM version -->
<script type="module">
  import Avatar from 'https://unpkg.com/vue-boring-avatars/dist/vue-boring-avatars.es.js'
</script>                                                                    

Props

Props:

• size: number
  • Default: 40
• square: boolean
  • Default: false
• name: string
  • Default: "Clara Barton"
• variant: string
  • Accepts either of the following: "bauhaus", "beam", "marble", "pixel", "ring", "sunset".
  • Default: "marble"
• colors: string[]
  • Accepts a string of colors.
  • Default: ["#92A1C6", "#146A7C", "#F0AB3D", "#C271B4", "#C20D90"]

Usage

Basic usage (with default props):

<template>
  <Avatar />
</template>

<script>
import Avatar from "vue-boring-avatars";

export default {
  components: {
    Avatar,
  },
});
</script>

Basic usage with <script setup> (with default props):

<script setup>
import Avatar from "vue-boring-avatars";
</script>

<template>
  <Avatar />
</template>

With props:

<template>
  <Avatar 
    :size="80" 
    variant="bauhaus"
    name="Mujahid Anuar" 
    :colors="colors" 
  />
</template>

<script>
import Avatar from "vue-boring-avatars";

export default {
  data() {
    return {
      colors: ["#92A1C6", "#146A7C", "#F0AB3D", "#C271B4", "#C20D90"]
    }
  },
  components: {
    Avatar,
  },
});
</script>

With Composition API:

<template>
  <input type="text" v-model="name" />
  <input type="number" v-model.number="size" />

  <Avatar :size="size" variant="bauhaus" :name="name" />
  <Avatar :size="size" variant="beam" :name="name" :square="true" />
  <Avatar :size="size" variant="marble" :name="name" />
  <Avatar :size="size" variant="pixel" :name="name" :square="true" />
  <Avatar :size="size" variant="ring" :name="name" />
  <Avatar :size="size" variant="sunset" :name="name" :square="true" />
</template>

<script lang="ts">
import { defineComponent, ref } from "vue";
import Avatar from "vue-boring-avatars";

export default defineComponent({
  name: "App",
  setup() {
    const name = ref("Clara Barton");
    const size = ref(80);

    return {
      name,
      size,
    };
  },
  components: {
    Avatar,
  },
});
</script>

Credits

Credits to @hihayk (GitHub) and @josep_martins (GitHub) for creating the original Boring Avatars library at boringdesigners!