Three pitfalls when wiring up jSquash
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jSquash packages mozjpeg, libwebp, and oxipng into browser-ready WASM. The API looks simple: init() then encode(). Wiring it in, I hit three pitfalls.
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View all tagsWhy image compression runs in the browser: Canvas vs WASM
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The laziest image compressor is three lines: createImageBitmap to decode, draw to a canvas, canvas.toBlob('image/webp', 0.75). I built that prototype first, and then found it was nowhere near a "professional compression tool".