Building local images with webpack

Compatibility

• webpack v5
• node 20+

Installation

npm

npm install @responsive-image/webpack

yarn

yarn add @responsive-image/webpack

pnpm

pnpm add @responsive-image/webpack

Usage

This package provides several webpack loaders for specific aspects of image processing and transforming an import of an image into an ES module whose exported value you can pass to the <ResponsiveImage/> component.

The easiest and recommended way to set these up is to use the provided setupLoaders utility function:

const { setupLoaders } = require('@responsive-image/webpack');

The function will return an array of loaders (so called chained loaders), that you can use to set up a webpack module rule. In your webpack config file (webpack.config.js) add such a module rule that tells webpack to use the provided loaders for importing images:

const { setupLoaders } = require('@responsive-image/webpack');

const config = {
  entry: './src/index.ts',
  // ...
  module: {
    rules: [
      // other rules...
      {
        resourceQuery: /responsive/,
        use: setupLoaders(),
      },
    ],
  },
};

TIP

While you could define the module rule to use our webpack loader for all kind of image imports, we recommend preserving the ability to import images using webpack's built-in asset modules if all you need is the image URL. When following the example config above, you would opt-in to responsive image processing only when importing using a ?responsive query parameter, like import image from './assets/hero.jpg?responsive';.

Configuration

Global configuration

The package comes with reasonable defaults, but if you want to customize these for all image imports globally, then you can pass an optional object with configuration options to setupLoaders():

setupLoaders({
  w: [1024, 2048],
  format: ['original', 'avif'],
});

Query params

Besides global settings, you can also pass all the supported configuration options as query parameters when importing an image:

import logo from './logo.jpg?&w=32;64&quality=95&responsive';

Query params always take precedence over global settings passed to setupLoaders().

Configuration options

All the general image parameters for local images can be specified both as global options or as query params, as explained above.

On top of that, there are the following webpack specific options, that you can customize the same way. In most cses, the existing defaults should be sufficient though.

name: string

The template for the generated image files. Certains placeholders like [ext] and [width] and all the common Webpack placeholders are replaced with real values.

Default: [name]-[width]w-[hash].[ext]

setupLoaders({
  name: '[name]_[width].[hash].[ext]',
});

webPath: string

The public URL the emitted files are referenced from. By default, this matches Webpacks public URL and the path generated from outputPath.

setupLoaders({
  webPath: 'https://images.example.com/',
});

outputPath: string

The file path where the public image files are emitted to. This is relative to the default folder configured for public asset files in Webpack.

Default: images