"gridy" and "jdenticon" avatar styles are now deprecated

[FlorianKoerner]

The avatar styles gridy and jdenticon are now deprecated. They are based on the great work of darosh and dmester. I want to keep version 5.0 completely dependency free. At the same time there is no reason to copy the libraries, because you can just use their libraries directly. I want to explain how to switch.

gridy

# Install the package with npm
npm install gridy-avatars prando

// In your code
import { outer } from 'gridy-avatars/dist/avatars';
import Prando from 'prando';

const seed = "your-custom-seed";
const prng = new Prando(seed);

const body = prng.nextInt(0, 7);
const bodyColor = prng.nextInt(0, 7);

const eyes = prng.nextInt(0, 7);
const eyesColor = prng.nextInt(0, 7);

const mouth = prng.nextInt(0, 7);
const mouthColor = prng.nextInt(0, 7);

const avatar = outer(`${body}${bodyColor}${eyes}${eyesColor}${mouth}${mouthColor}`);

Documentation: https://github.com/darosh/gridy-avatars#usage

jdenticon

# Install the package with npm
npm install jdenticon

// In your code
import { toSvg } from "jdenticon";

const seed = "your-custom-seed";
const width = 50;

const avatar = toSvg(seed, 50);

Documentation: https://jdenticon.com/get-started/typescript.html

[Alfagun74]

very sad. Will the API still have these? @FlorianKoerner

[FlorianKoerner]

Yes.