placeholder-img

Generates low-res blurred versions of images that can be used as placeholders while lazy-loading them.

Installation

• npm install --save placeholder-img

Usage

• To create a placeholder image file,

  const placeholderImg = require('placeholder-img');

  const src = 'path/to/image';
  await placeholderImg.toFile(src, /* optional destination */);

If the destination is not provided, the image will be saved to ${SRC}-placeholder.${FORMAT}.

• To generate the placeholder image in base64 encoding,

  const placeholderImg = require('placeholder-img');

  const src = 'path/to/image';
  const base64Image = await placeholderImg.toBase64(src);

License

MIT © Sivasubramanyam A