Create Avatars from Initials
As a developer, you often face the challenge of having to generate or integrate an avatar image, e.g., for the profile. There are several ways to do this: You can offer the user an upload option and then save the profile picture. A user’s email can be matched against services such as gravatar.com. It is checked whether a profile picture is stored in the authentication service used. However, if the user does not want to upload a picture, or no picture can be assigned to the user online, it is now expected that the profile picture will be replaced by a placeholder with the initials. Here we have 2 options: ...