Dustin Goodman, engineering manager at This Dot, explores how to use Svelte and Cloudinary to optimize images for websites. Svelte is a JavaScript framework that can be used to create interactive user interfaces, and Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that can be used to store, manage, and deliver high-quality images.
Check out Goodman’s five essential tips for Svelte and Cloudinary in action below:
In the video, Goodman emphasizes the importance of optimizing images for websites, as it can significantly boost performance and engaging user experiences. He then demonstrates how to use the Cloudinary image component to automatically optimize the images, reducing their size while maintaining quality. He also shows how to use dynamic transformations to crop and resize the images, as well as AI-driven processing to fill in any blanks and adjust the color.
Finally, he adds overlays to the images to highlight new products or active sales, and uses the background removal feature to give the headphones a brick background to match the other images.
Optimizing images for websites is essential for creating a great user experience. It can make a huge difference in page load times and overall performance
Dustin Goodman, Engineering Manager, This Dot Labs
Optimizing images for websites is essential for creating a great user experience. It can make a huge difference in page load times and overall performance. Images that aren’t optimized can take longer to load, resulting in a slower website and a less engaging user experience.
Using Svelte and Cloudinary together can help optimize images for websites quickly and easily. With Cloudinary, you can automatically optimize images, reducing their size while maintaining quality by simply using their cloud dashboard and CldImage component like this:
```
<script>
import { CldImage } from 'svelte-cloudinary';
/**
* @type {{ src: string, title: string }[]}
*/
export let images = [];
</script>
<div class="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 lg:grid-cols-4 gap-4 p-4">
{#each images as image}
<div class="overflow-hidden rounded-lg">
<CldImage width={500} height="auto" src={image.src} alt={image.title} />
</div>
{/each}
</div>
```Code language: HTML, XML (xml)Goodman demonstrates how to use the Cloudinary image component to automatically optimize images. This component can be used to crop and resize images, and AI-driven processing to fill in any blanks and adjust the color. It can also be used to add overlays to the images to highlight new products or active sales, and the background removal feature gives the headphones a brick background to match the other images.
```
<CldImage
width={500}
height={500}
crop="pad"
removeBackground={true}
effects={[
{
autoContrast: true,
vibrance: 10,
improve: true
},
...(image.effects ?? [])
]}
overlays={image.overlays ?? []}
src={image.src}
alt={image.title}
/>
```Code language: HTML, XML (xml)Optimizing images for websites is essential for creating a great user experience. Using Svelte and Cloudinary together can help optimize images quickly and easily. With Cloudinary, you can automatically optimize images, reducing their size while maintaining quality. You can also use dynamic transformations to crop and resize the images, and leverage AI-driven processing to fill in any blanks and adjust the color. To ensure your images are consistent, add overlays to the images to highlight context and use the background removal feature.
