Optimizt is a CLI tool that helps you prepare images during frontend development.
It can compress PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG lossy and lossless and create AVIF and WebP versions for raster images.
As frontend developers we have to care about pictures: compress PNG & JPEG, remove useless parts of SVG, create AVIF and WebP for modern browsers, etc. One day we got tired of using a bunch of apps for that, and created one tool that does everything we want.
Install the tool:
npm i -g @funboxteam/optimizt
Optimize!
optimizt path/to/picture.jpg
--avif
— create AVIF versions for the passed paths instead of compressing them.--webp
— create WebP versions for the passed paths instead of compressing them.--force
— force create AVIF and WebP even if output file size increased or file already exists.-l, --lossless
— optimize losslessly instead of lossily (WebP and AVIF only).-v, --verbose
— show additional info, e.g. skipped files.-o, --output
— write result to provided directory.-V, --version
— show tool version.-h, --help
— show help.
# one image optimization
optimizt path/to/picture.jpg
# list of images optimization losslessly
optimizt --lossless path/to/picture.jpg path/to/another/picture.png
# recursive AVIF creation in the passed directory
optimizt --avif path/to/directory
# recursive WebP creation in the passed directory
optimizt --webp path/to/directory
# recursive JPEG optimization in the current directory
find . -iname \*.jpg -exec optimizt {} +
jpegoptim with flags: --strip-all
, --all-progressive
, --max=80
.
Guetzli with --quality 90
flag.
Guetzli aims for excellent compression density at high visual quality.
Keep in mind that if you reoptimize the same file in lossless mode, the file size may decrease, but the visual quality will also degrade.
sharp with parameters:
- lossy:
compressionLevel: 9
,adaptiveFiltering: false
,palette: true
- lossless:
compressionLevel: 9
,adaptiveFiltering: true
,palette: false
gifsicle with flags:
- lossy:
-O3
,--lossy=100
- lossless: no flags
sharp with parameters:
- lossy:
quality: 85
,lossless: false
- lossless:
quality: 85
,lossless: true
gif2webp with flags:
- lossy:
-lossy
,-min_size
- lossless: no flags
sharp with parameters:
- lossy:
lossless: false
- lossless:
lossless: true
Open Preferences → Tools → External Tools and add a new tool with these options:
- Program: path to the exec file (usually simply
optimizt
) - Arguments: desired ones, but use
$FilePath$
to pass Optimizt the path of the selected file or directory - Working Directory:
$ContentRoot$
- Synchronize files after execution: ✔️
Set other options at your discretion. For example:
As you see on the screenshot above, you may add several “external tools” with the different options passed.
Run the tool through the context menu on a file or directory:
![](/https/github.com/copyit/optimizt/raw/master/images/ws_menu.png)
To add shortcuts for the added tool go to Preferences → Keymap → External Tools:
Run >Tasks: Open User Tasks
from the Command Palette.
In an open file, add new tasks to the tasks
array, for example:
{
// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
// for the documentation about the tasks.json format
"version": "2.0.0",
"tasks": [
{
"label": "optimizt: Optimize Image",
"type": "shell",
"command": "optimizt",
"args": [
"--verbose",
{
"value": "${file}",
"quoting": "strong"
}
],
"presentation": {
"echo": false,
"showReuseMessage": false,
"clear": true
}
},
{
"label": "optimizt: Optimize Image (lossless)",
"type": "shell",
"command": "optimizt",
"args": [
"--lossless",
"--verbose",
{
"value": "${file}",
"quoting": "strong"
}
],
"presentation": {
"echo": false,
"showReuseMessage": false,
"clear": true
}
},
{
"label": "optimizt: Create WebP",
"type": "shell",
"command": "optimizt",
"args": [
"--webp",
"--verbose",
{
"value": "${file}",
"quoting": "strong"
}
],
"presentation": {
"echo": false,
"showReuseMessage": false,
"clear": true
}
},
{
"label": "optimizt: Create WebP (lossless)",
"type": "shell",
"command": "optimizt",
"args": [
"--webp",
"--lossless",
"--verbose",
{
"value": "${file}",
"quoting": "strong"
}
],
"presentation": {
"echo": false,
"showReuseMessage": false,
"clear": true
}
}
]
}
- Open the file for processing using Optimizt, it should be in the active tab.
- Run
>Tasks: Run Task
from the Command Palette. - Select the required task.
You can add shortcuts for a specific task by run >Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)
from the Command Palette.
An example of adding a hotkey to run the "optimizt: Optimize Image (lossless)" task:
// Place your key bindings in this file to override the defaults
[
{
"key": "ctrl+l",
"command": "workbench.action.tasks.runTask",
"args": "optimizt: Optimize Image (lossless)"
}
]
You’ll find the user settings directory in one of the following paths:
- macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User
- Linux:
~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\Sublime Text 3\Packages\User
Inside the settings directory create a file optimizt.py
with the following content:
import os
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
optimizt = "~/.nodenv/shims/optimizt"
class OptimiztCommand(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand):
def run(self, paths=[], options=""):
if len(paths) < 1:
return
safe_paths = ["\"" + i + "\"" for i in paths]
shell_cmd = optimizt + " " + options + " " + " ".join(safe_paths)
cwd = os.path.dirname(paths[0])
self.window.run_command("exec", {
"shell_cmd": shell_cmd,
"working_dir": cwd
})
Specify path to executable inside optimizt
variable, this path can be obtained by running
command -v optimizt
(on *nix) or where optimizt
(on Windows).
Inside the settings directory create a file Side Bar.sublime-menu
with the following content:
[
{
"caption": "Optimizt",
"children": [
{
"caption": "Optimize Images",
"command": "optimizt",
"args": {
"paths": [],
"options": "--verbose"
}
},
{
"caption": "Optimize Images (lossless)",
"command": "optimizt",
"args": {
"paths": [],
"options": "--lossless --verbose"
}
},
{
"caption": "Create WebP",
"command": "optimizt",
"args": {
"paths": [],
"options": "--webp --verbose"
}
},
{
"caption": "Create WebP (lossless)",
"command": "optimizt",
"args": {
"paths": [],
"options": "--webp --lossless --verbose"
}
}
]
}
]
Run the tool through the context menu on a file or directory:
![](/https/github.com/copyit/optimizt/raw/master/images/st_sidebar_menu.png)
Create optimizt.yml
file in the .github/workflows
directory of your repository.
Insert the following code into optimizt.yml
:
name: optimizt
on:
# Triggers the workflow on push events but only for the “main” branch
# and only when there's JPEG/PNG in the commmit
push:
branches:
- main
paths:
- "**.jpe?g"
- "**.png"
# Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
convert:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
# Install Node.js to avoid EACCESS errors upon install packages
- uses: actions/setup-node@v2
with:
node-version: 14
- name: Install Optimizt
run: npm install --global @funboxteam/optimizt
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
persist-credentials: false # otherwise, the token used is the GITHUB_TOKEN, instead of your personal token
fetch-depth: 0 # get all commits (only the last one fetched by default)
- name: Run Optimizt
run: optimizt --verbose --force --avif --webp .
- name: Commit changes
run: |
git add -A
git config --local user.email "[email protected]"
git config --local user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git diff --quiet && git diff --staged --quiet \
|| git commit -am "Create WebP & AVIF versions"
- name: Push changes
uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
branch: ${{ github.ref }}
This workflow will find all JPEG and PNG files in pushed commits and add the AVIF and WebP versions via a new commit.
More examples you can find in the workflows directory.
Make sure that the ignore-scripts option is not active.
See #9.
Some operating systems may lack of required libraries and utils, so you need to install them.
Example (on macOS via Homebrew):
brew install pkg-config jpeg libpng
If this error occurs during installation and you have a Mac on an Apple M1 chip, then try installing with the following command:
CPPFLAGS="-I /opt/homebrew/Cellar/jpeg/9d/include" LDFLAGS="-L /opt/homebrew/Cellar/jpeg/9d/lib" npm i -g @funboxteam/optimizt
See #30.
If you want to build the Docker image, you need to:
- Clone this repo and cd into it.
- Run
docker build -t funbox/optimizt .
.
OR:
- Run
docker build -t funbox/optimizt https://github.com/funbox/optimizt.git
, but keep in mind that the .dockerignore file will be ignored.
Inside the container WORKDIR is set to /src
, so by default all paths will be resolved relative to it.
Usage example:
docker run -v $(pwd):/src optimizt --webp image.png
Cute picture for the project was made by Igor Garybaldi.