Blurmage

Generate lazy-loading HTML images with a blurred inline preview.

Install

npm -g i blurmage

How to use

Pass an URL or path of an image file as first argument of the cli tool blurmage, the resulting tag will be printed on the console.

Example

❯ blurmage http://caffeina.com/media/New-Office.jpg

The outputted tag will be :

<!--IMG--><div class="-blurmage" style="transform:translatez(0);background-image:url(data:image/jpeg;base64,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);background-size:cover;background-position:center center;transition:background-image .45s ease-in-out;width:1023px;height:670px;"><img width="1023" height="670" src="http://caffeina.com/media/New-Office.jpg" style="visibility:hidden" onload="this.parentNode.style['background-image']='url('+this.src+')'"></div><!--/IMG-->

Example