As stated in the article, generating the SVG to use as a placeholder can be very expensive. I, myself fiddled with the idea in one of my side-projects and ende

As stated in the article, generating the SVG to use as a placeholder can be very expensive. I, myself fiddled with the idea in one of my side-projects and ended up using the technique where I save the dominant colors from an image, which I’m using to create a CSS gradient as the placeholder. The effect can be seen on https://epicpxls.com https://epicpxls.com