Wouldn’t it would be great if we can use existing avatar of user on basis of email id instead of asking user to upload their profile pic ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gravatar<\/a> is Globally recognized avatar used by millions of user and many websites like WordPress, github, stackoverflow etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In this post, we would create a reusable lightning component which would receive below three parameters to construct avatar<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gravatar would need MD5 equivalent of email address. There is no native Javascript library to compute MD5 hash, either we have to use Javascript library or we can use Apex to compute MD5 using crypto<\/a> class. I preferred Apex class instead of any other library a shown below<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here for Live Demo – Gravatar Component on public community<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Apex Class – Using Crypto class to generate MD5 digest equivalent to email<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n