compressorjs VS my-photohub

After researching a couple of different options, what I landed on was a package called compressorjs written by Chen Fengyuan. This library performs compression and resizing of images in the browser. I was a bit skeptical at first, but it's a cool project and has good browser support. How Compressorjs works is that it uses the HTML5 canvas element to read the original image data and perform lossy transformations to compress and resize the image. There's a whole bunch of transformation options. For my project, what I have found is simply changing the maximum width of the image to 600px and slightly reducing the quality has greatly reduced the file sizes.

You can change image quality or pass different options. I set customized mimeType and width by passing option parameter here. You can find more usages from compressor.js original documentation.

I will use compressorjs, a tiny librarie (3.8 kB minzipped). Compressor.js uses the Browser's native HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob() API to do the compression work, which means it is lossy compression.

(I checked out : imagemin, compress.js, compressorjs and some small others)

Django CK editor comes with default image shrinker based on Pillow, But Pillow sucks at image shrinking, A frontend library called compressorjs does 5 times the Image quality with 5 times smaller the size.

MORE INFO

You don't actually need any web services. Just import the compressorjs library and the UPNG.js library on client side(frontend) and then before uploading the data to server compress the image. These libraries were actually written for frontend compression by their respective owners. https://github.com/photopea/UPNG.js (25kb) https://github.com/fengyuanchen/compressorjs (8kb)

1) My Photohub 📸

1. My favorite repository: My-Photohub 📸

I picked my favorite Seneca College project my-photohub and successfully created two pull requests there.

Continuing from last post, I have completed my feature that produces optimized images, create a remote repository and make a commit with the files. My PR may be updated, but I think the change would not be so big from now.

1) The open-source contributions are going well! - I was able to successfully make pull requests to flutter and to my-photohub - I am currently working on responding to the issues I worked on.

For the following PR I had to come up with logo for the project.

I have had my pull request merged for creating the UI for creating a new project. What I have created is purely visual and has little functionality. With my contribution, I have integrated my UI with what already exists.

For 0.4, I plan to create the UI for my-photohub. I am choosing this project because I thought the concept of it was interesting. Also, I wanted to work on a React project, I had previously worked on a personal project using React and wanted to put that practice to use on a real project. Another reason I chose this project was because did not want to spend too much time looking for an external project to work on that was viable.

Continuing on my story for My PhotoHub Image optimization GitHub Action, my approach was to convert files using JavaScript framework Sharp and shell script creates a repo and pushes the files to it. I pushed my script with my questions to ask how we should deploy the app. With this PR, I wanted to make sure my approach was ok and what the next steps would be.

My Photohub: I have already contributed to this project a few weeks ago where I created the UI of the progressive web app (PWA) using React. I plan on working on the other issues filed for this project and try to get closer to the finished product of this project.