payload blurhash plugin

Payload CMS BlurHash Plugin by Zapal

Turbocharge your website performance by creating ultralight image placeholders, resulting in a smoother user experience.

📋 Requirements

• Payload version 1.7.2 or higher is required (version 2.0.0 or higher is recommended)

🚀 Getting started

Instal the package with yarn add @zapal/payload-blurhash-plugin or npm install @zapal/payload-blurhash-plugin

Now setup the plugin within your payload.config.ts file as follows:

import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config';

import { blurHash } from '@zapal/payload-blurhash-plugin';
import path from 'path';

/* ... */

export default buildConfig({
  plugins: [
    blurHash({
      collections: ['team-photos-collection', 'blog-images-collection'],
    }),
  ],
  /* ... */
});

The plugin will generate a readonly blurhash field for each image uploaded to the specified collections. Generation for imageSizes are not supported yet (but it's in progress).

🎛️ Conditionally enabling/disabling

The proper way to conditionally enable/disable this plugin is to use the enabled property.

blurHash({
  enabled: process.env.ENABLE_BLURHASH_PLUGIN === 'true',
  collections: ['team-photos-collection', 'blog-images-collection'],
}),

⚙️ Plugin options

This plugin is configurable to work across upload-enabled Payload collections. A * denotes that the property is required.

Option	Type	Description
collections *	string[]	Array of upload-enabled collections' slugs you want to enable the plugin for.
enabled	boolean	Conditionally enable/disable plugin. Default: true.
width	number	Width to resize the image before computing the blurhash. Default: 32.
height	number	Height to resize the image before computing the blurhash. Default: 32.
componentX	number	X component count to pass to the blurhash encoder. Default: 3.
componentY	number	Y component count to pass to the blurhash encoder. Default: 3.

See more information about the width, height, componentX, componentY options and BlurHash encoder here.

💻 Local development

You can find the source code in the src directory. For development purposes, you can use the dev directory with all the necessary files to test the plugin in a Payload project. Also we are strongly recommending to use your IDE debugger instead of console.log statements.

You need to follow these steps to start developing and testing the plugin locally:

1. Go to dev directory (cd dev)
2. Create .env file (cp .env.example .env)
3. Setup environment variables in .env file
4. Install dependencies (npm i)
5. Run the project (npm run dev)

And you are ready to go!

🤝 Contributing

We are open to, and grateful for, any contributions made by the community.

We are planning to add more features to this plugin in the future. If you have any ideas, create an issue to discuss it.

Next steps (v1):

• Optional blurhash generation for imageSizes (in progress)
• Custom field name support
• Unit tests
• Code refactoring

Next steps (v2):

• Custom options for each collection

🛡️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

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