imagemin

What is imagemin?

The imagemin npm package is a powerful tool for image compression and optimization. It allows developers to reduce the size of images without losing quality, which can significantly improve the performance of web applications by reducing load times.

What are imagemin's main functionalities?

Basic Image Compression

This code demonstrates how to use imagemin to compress JPEG and PNG images. The images are taken from the 'images' directory and the compressed versions are saved in the 'build/images' directory. The quality of JPEG images is set to 75, and the quality of PNG images is set between 60% and 80%.

const imagemin = require('imagemin');
const imageminMozjpeg = require('imagemin-mozjpeg');
const imageminPngquant = require('imagemin-pngquant');

(async () => {
    const files = await imagemin(['images/*.{jpg,png}'], {
        destination: 'build/images',
        plugins: [
            imageminMozjpeg({quality: 75}),
            imageminPngquant({quality: [0.6, 0.8]})
        ]
    });

    console.log(files);
})();

GIF Optimization

This code demonstrates how to optimize GIF images using imagemin. The GIF images are taken from the 'images' directory and the optimized versions are saved in the 'build/images' directory. The optimization level is set to 3, which is the highest level of optimization.

const imagemin = require('imagemin');
const imageminGifsicle = require('imagemin-gifsicle');

(async () => {
    const files = await imagemin(['images/*.gif'], {
        destination: 'build/images',
        plugins: [
            imageminGifsicle({optimizationLevel: 3})
        ]
    });

    console.log(files);
})();

SVG Optimization

This code demonstrates how to optimize SVG images using imagemin. The SVG images are taken from the 'images' directory and the optimized versions are saved in the 'build/images' directory. The SVGO plugin is configured to keep the viewBox attribute and not to remove IDs.

const imagemin = require('imagemin');
const imageminSvgo = require('imagemin-svgo');

(async () => {
    const files = await imagemin(['images/*.svg'], {
        destination: 'build/images',
        plugins: [
            imageminSvgo({
                plugins: [
                    {removeViewBox: false},
                    {cleanupIDs: false}
                ]
            })
        ]
    });

    console.log(files);
})();

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sharp

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jimp

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image-webpack-loader

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README

imagemin

A tool which fork from grunt-img to optimize PNG and JPG images with pngcrush & jpegtran (jpegtran-turbo on win32).

Getting Started

First, be sure that you have jpegtran installed in your system.

for Mac users

You can install with homebrew

brew install jpeg

for Linux users

Debian, Ubuntu and Mint

apt-get install libjpeg libjpeg-progs

Both libraries are easy to find for RPM distributions too.

for Windows users

Don't worry because both libraries are included.

Install

npm install imagemin

How to use

for shell

imagemin file/path
imagemin file/path -o new/file/path

for nodejs

var imagemin = require('imagemin');
imagemin(filePath, destDir, callback);

Credits

• Grunt-image Helder Santana
• node-pngcrush node-pngcrush