Suppport for BlurHash on placeholder

[niklasfjeldberg]

Are there any plans to add support for the format BlurHash for placeholders? At a minimum support for showing BlurHash images.

[everyx]

ThumbHash can also be considered as an option

[pi0]

Considering variaties of ways to generate blured images, i am thinking a pluggable method for image module to support them would make better sense.

[tewnut]

upvoted

[oikalyptus]

This would make a great addition!

[Resumane]

That would be nice.

[EdmundChaplin]

agreed

[M-GRV]

would love to see any interest in this.

[M-GRV]

I will look into adding both thumbhash and blurhash soon as a PR.

[chrisspiegl]

Hi @M-GRV, that's a great option and enhancement.

I have personally combined Nuxt/Image with @unlazy/nuxt and think that was the best at the time.

Blurhash support for Nuxt/Image may be best to orient on the implementation of it in the unlazy project (so you don't have to re-invent the wheel):

https://github.com/johannschopplich/unlazy

[M-GRV]

Hi @M-GRV, that's a great option and enhancement.

I have personally combined Nuxt/Image with @unlazy/nuxt and think that was the best at the time.

Blurhash support for Nuxt/Image may be best to orient on the implementation of it in the unlazy project (so you don't have to re-invent the wheel):

https://github.com/johannschopplich/unlazy

@chrisspiegl

I am currently using that, but there are times when I don't need to use lazy loading of images for above the fold headers etc, but I still need a placeholder of a thumbhash.

I included a PR, but the creator of unlazy just marked it as not planned, stating if you don't want an image lazy loaded, don't use unlazy, so I am forced to look elsewhere for this specific use case. I don't wish to maintain a separate fork and there is nothing else available.

Otherwise, I recommend unlazy.

[M-GRV]

This has been added to unlazy!

[chrisspiegl]

For clarification: the ability to “lazy load or not” has been added to unlazy. The request still stays open for Nuxt/Image to add BlurHash support (or be based on unlazy as an alternative).