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Ask HN: Best toolchain for image-heavy, static websites?
Recently, I've taken on several contracts to build portfolio websites for people in the graphic design and architecture sectors. Currently I'm using Jekyll to generate the sites themselves and hosting them on a shared VPS like GoDaddy, but I'm finding it really difficult to optimize all the images they are sending over (bulk resizing + compression).
I'm curious to hear what tools people use to solve similar challenges in addition what hosting solutions that could allow me to better cache + serve these images.
Thanks!
- tangue 10y agoThis is an area where Node shines. I'm tackling this now through Gulp and ImageOptim and It's the most reliable solution I've found. Tip : As I (and most people) tend to mess with Gulp files, I've isolated the task to process the images from the other frontend optimisations.
- jose885 10y agoRuby plays pretty nicely with ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick. Those two are my go-to tools for bulk images processing. As far as serving up static content goes, Nginx is the best.