compressorjs VS supabase

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)

I didn't really give much thought as to which backend I would use. I already had 2 projects in Supabase (BOXCUT & MineWork), but also a few projects in Firebase too. I was more concerned at the time at actually building the product.

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Setting up Supabase Create a new Supabase project, and get the connection string for the database from settings > database.

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Supabase will be used for storing article data in the database and the cover image of the article in storage. Chakra UI will be used to provide style to the elements. By using both, we can build the blog with ease.

For AutoRepurpose, I opted for Supabase as the backbone of the backend. It has reliably supported Penelope AI, which garnered over 15k users in 2022 without any issues.

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