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Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars

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Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars

#15

Why make a library dependent on a particular framework? Seems to just limit usefulness for no particular gain.

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...

Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars

#16

Why make a library dependent on a particular framework? Seems to just limit usefulness for no particular gain.

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...

But you could just write that generation in plain JavaScript, React is really just a syntax.

Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars

#19

Why make a library dependent on a particular framework? Seems to just limit usefulness for no particular gain.

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...

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