blurhash VS plaiceholder

Now that you have the generated blurhash string, all that’s left is to display it on your frontend. There are plenty of libraries that can help you do just that—links and documentation can be found in the official BlurHash repository. Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of UX and make our interfaces as pleasant and responsive as possible!

AvifHash leverages the power of AVIF to create image placeholders that are both compact and efficient.

This Proof of Concept shows promising results: at 28 characters, AvifHash outperforms BlurHash https://blurha.sh/ (using 4x3 components) in quality and detail retention. At a similar quality, BlurHash needs 54 (5x5) to 76 characters (6x6 components).

Given that AVIF decoding is done by the web engine, AvifHash is very small: the entire demo page (including parsing and re-hydration code) is only 2.3 kB gzipped.

BlurHash website: blurha.sh

Blogspam, including just taking over the source images.

Original: https://blurha.sh/ and https://blog.wolt.com/hq/2019/07/01/how-we-came-to-create-a-... (2019)

While it's similar to BlurHash, the color performance is much better for the same filesize. Here's a a demonstration of this from the demo page (with ThumbHash in the middle and BlurHash on the right):

Package Link - https://blurha.sh

If you do go this way, you can use https://blurha.sh

No blurhash for images like Next or Gatsby

Because is not a static import, I use a library called plaiceholder to create blurred versions of my images, so I can use placeholder="blur" from Next. Each image is being rendered with different sizes.

So, I have an image component in Next.js I want to add a custom placeholder, I used Plaiceholder to add placeholder, but it only seems to work when the Image has been provided with width and height but does not seem to work when I provide, I manipulate the height and width with CSS .

From my research, I could not find any Next.js package that could help me with the conversion from BlurHash's Base83 data URL to a Base64 data URL, or any Next.js implementation that works for dynamic images. The few packages I found, like the recently published use-next-blurhash and plaiceholder.co, do not work with Next.js for dynamically stored images.

Tip: Plaiceholder is a good tool for generating base64-encoded images.

You might remember that we tried the Plaiceholder library last week, which wasn’t a great success. Since I want to release this project sooner rather than later, I decided to use the same image loading animation as I do on my website.

First, I tried a library called Plaiceholder, to try and see if I could generate Base64 strings to create a blur of all the affiliate programs' images. However, I think generating the Base64 string on the fly for 12 images at a time might be too much to ask since I couldn't get NextJS past the serializing error.

An easy way is to use plaiceholder

What we have done here is a bit of a hack, granted. But it's effective, as all good hacks are. With this, we're setting all placeholder images to be the same data, at least in the context of Storybook. The string above is actually the base64 representation of the placeholder for the plaiceholder example image on their homepage. But we could just as easily upload our own image there and use that.

You can achieve blur-up placeholders with next/image but you have to do some work on the server with either getStaticProps or getServerSideProps using placeholder.