Image Optimisation with the TinyPNG API

• tinify-nodejs

  1 413 0.0 JavaScript

  Node.js client for the Tinify API.

  

You'll note that we're using the tinify npm package which is developed here. Handily this package ships with TypeScript definitions, so we don't need to install a separate types package.

• TypeScript

  1,307 98,169 9.9 TypeScript

  TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  

We're going to initialise a simple Node.js console application called "tinify" using TypeScript and ts-node:

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• squoosh

  267 21,014 5.8 TypeScript

  Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser.

  

It's a good idea to optimise our images; to make sure they're not unhelpfully large. We can do this manually using tools like TinyPNG or Squoosh. However, it's also possible to automate this process. In this post, I'll show you how to do that using the TinyPNG API.

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