Using Gravatars
Gravatar is a free service that lets you associate a profile picture with your email address. Gravatar makes each user’s profile image available via a specially formatted URL. For example, Figure 18.3 shows the Gravatar of one of our test accounts.
Figure 18.3 Gravatar image example
See the end of the URL? That is a unique identifier generated from
the user’s email address. This identifier is called a
hash and is easy to generate with the help of a
third-party library called crypto-js.
Add crypto-js to your project using npm:
npm install --save-dev crypto-js
crypto-js is now installed in your project’s ...
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