Release codecs on NPM

[onigoetz]

Hi,

do you consider releasing the codecs ( optiping / mozjpeg ...) as npm packages ?
I've tried to build them myself in the past but failed to do so.

I use imagemin in my toolbelt to compress images at build time, but as it relies on binaries downloaded on install, it's very painful on a corporate environment without internet access on build machines.

I'm pretty sure more people than just me would be interested in such a feature : imagemin/optipng-bin#71

[jakearchibald]

Yeah, this is a good idea & something we planned from the start.

The codecs are currently in their own folders and with their own readmes.

We just need to figure out the best way to extract them and provide them separately.

[onigoetz]

Thanks for the quick reply, looking forward to it then :) Is there anything I can help with ?

P.S. Thanks for everything you presented at Chrome Dev Summit, didn't watch everything yet, still catching up :)

[kurtommy]

Yeah @jakearchibald and @surma are working on this!
After reading the article about this project the first thing i've done was search on npm i'd like to add a prebuild script to optimise our Anuglar /assets/imgs folder that would be great, the online version is nicce and handy but it doesn't work for bulk optimisations
... looking forward the npm lib!

you know jake today i've been to visit one of our clients (top fashion brand) doing a speach about service worker PWA ... :)

[gustavopch]

Nothing yet? 😢

[tracker1]

Posted a dupe feature request (#684), apologies... Notes from my dupe.

• Use a squoosh org in npm for the codecs
• Publish individually
  • browser: abstraction for browser interface (for use with webpack/browserify/etc build) -- this may require special instructions for use
  • main: abstraction for node (for use with node's wasm usage)
• Publish package with all of the individual packages referenced

[tracker1]

Would still love to see some traction on this... surprised nothing has been done as of yet.

[mohamed-rekiba]

any news?

[samal-rasmussen]

I have a use case where we let users upload png files from the browser to a server. I would love to be able to run oxipng over it on the client side for some free space saving before sending :)

[samal-rasmussen]

Ah the codecs are all already available as separate projects right here in the repo:
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/dev/codecs

The oxipng one also has a package.json and seems almost ready to just upload to npm. Should be able to just copy/paste into your own project for now:
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/dev/codecs/oxipng/pkg

Example usage right here:
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/blob/dev/src/codecs/oxipng/encoder.ts

[magicdawn]

here is addon package copy of mozjpeg (c++ code copy from squoosh), can be used in node / electron
https://github.com/magicdawn/node-mozjpeg