react-avatar-editor vs boring-avatars

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react-avatar-editor		boring-avatars
	Project
1	Mentions	5
2,297	Stars	5,405
-	Growth	2.3%
6.3	Activity	4.9
4 months ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
TypeScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

react-avatar-editor

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-avatar-editor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

How do I upload an image and edit it like LinkedIn's UI?
1 project | /r/reactjs | 12 Mar 2022

boring-avatars

Posts with mentions or reviews of boring-avatars. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-31.

Boringavatars.com is down, 402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2022

Discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/boringdesigners/boring-avatars/issues/57
Third-party deployment of the site: https://www.boringavatar.com/ (without the 's')
A little React library to replace your boring fallback avatars
1 project | /r/programming | 1 Jun 2021
🧢 Stefan's Web Weekly #21
4 projects | dev.to | 31 May 2021

boringdesigners/boring-avatars – A JavaScript React library that generates custom, SVG-based, round avatars from any username and color palette.
Boring avatars: a tiny JavaScript React library generating custom SVG avatars
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2021
Boring Avatars – react library to generate custom avatars
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2021

It creates SVGs using React[1], it would be nontrivial to support another view library with this design and if you're going to support only one at initial release React is probably the most popular bet.
[1]: https://github.com/boringdesigners/boring-avatars/blob/maste...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-avatar-editor and boring-avatars you can also consider the following projects:

react-image-crop - A responsive image cropping tool for React

dicebear - DiceBear is an avatar library for designers and developers. 🌍

react-image-cropper - react image crop

tailwind-figma - FlowBite is a free and open-source set of UI components and pages in Figma built for Tailwind CSS

react-avatar-cropper - Aiming to be a complete solution for avatar cropping in react.

minidenticons - Super lightweight SVG identicon (pixelated avatar) generator

jspaint - 🎨 Classic MS Paint, ＲＥＶＩＶＥＤ + ✨Extras

og-image - Open Graph Image as a Service - generate cards for Twitter, Facebook, Slack, etc

react-profile - React Profile Editor, crop, upload, apply filters and adjust colors for your avatar image. Optimize the image size for your application

utterances - :crystal_ball: A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

sharp - High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.

react-nice-avatar - react library for generating avatar