PrismicNextImage blurDataURL utilities or metadata

[gijs (Gijs Boddeus)]

Hi there,

I've found the 2 issues below, which were unresolved as a tracked feature request.

Next/image placeholder base64 hash

Prismic's Image optimization does currently not support blurred placeholders. imgix however does. I was however now advised that there is another ticket that refers to exactly the same and it seems to be on the Prismic's roadmap to integrate: Support for imgix blurhash. I guess it will not be for next/image, but for Prismic/ImgIx own solution. I would however be interested how prismic's solution compares to next/image in terms of performance for server side rendered pages as well as client sid…

Support for imgix blurhash

The new next.js allows us to give a blurhash for images. I see that your imgix API does not support this yet even though imgix does have supuport for blurhash: Can you guys update imgix to the latest version?

I was thinking that due to the new media library that this might be relevant again. I could imagine adding metadata for the dominant color or even adding a low resolution base64 data URL could be very helpful.

I can only find solutions using plaiceholder for the next image to fill the blurDataUrl. Any utilities to make this easier, or even an example article adding this to slices, would be a great resource.

[guy.proops]

Hi @gijs , thanks for the feedback. We hadn't re-opened the blurhash topic in the context of the new media library. I don't think it will be something we can address in the current iteration as the team is wrapping up work on this feature and will be focussed on the Team Spaces feature and improving our document search in Q2. I will update this thread if we pick up this topic.

Best,
Guy