1. gulp-imagemin
Minify PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG images
gulp-imagemin
Package: gulp-imagemin
Created by: sindresorhus
Last modified: Sun, 05 May 2024 20:14:22 GMT
Version: 9.1.0
License: MIT
Downloads: 487,671
Repository: https://github.com/sindresorhus/gulp-imagemin

Install

npm install gulp-imagemin
yarn add gulp-imagemin

gulp-imagemin

Minify PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG images with imagemin

Issues with the output should be reported on the imagemin issue tracker.

Install

 npm install --save-dev gulp-imagemin

Usage

Basic

 import gulp from 'gulp';
import imagemin from 'gulp-imagemin';

export default () => (
	gulp.src('src/images/*')
		.pipe(imagemin())
		.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/images'))
);

Custom plugin options

 import imagemin, {gifsicle, mozjpeg, optipng, svgo} from 'gulp-imagemin';

// …
.pipe(imagemin([
	gifsicle({interlaced: true}),
	mozjpeg({quality: 75, progressive: true}),
	optipng({optimizationLevel: 5}),
	svgo({
		plugins: [
			{
				name: 'removeViewBox',
				active: true
			},
			{
				name: 'cleanupIDs',
				active: false
			}
		]
	})
]))
// …

Custom plugin options and custom gulp-imagemin options

 import imagemin, {svgo} from 'gulp-imagemin';

// …
.pipe(imagemin([
	svgo({
		plugins: [
			{
				name: 'removeViewBox',
				active: true
			}
		]
	})
], {
	verbose: true
}))
// …

API

Comes bundled with the following optimizers:

  • gifsicleCompress GIF images, lossless
  • mozjpegCompress JPEG images, lossy
  • optipngCompress PNG images, lossless
  • svgoCompress SVG images, lossless

These are bundled for convenience and most users will not need anything else.

imagemin(plugins?, options?)

Unsupported files are ignored.

plugins

Type: Array
Default: [gifsicle(), mozjpeg(), optipng(), svgo()]

Plugins to use. This will completely overwrite all the default plugins. So, if you want to use custom plugins and you need some of defaults too, then you should pass default plugins as well. Note that the default plugins come with good defaults and should be sufficient in most cases. See the individual plugins for supported options.

options

Type: object

verbose

Type: boolean
Default: false

Enabling this will log info on every image passed to gulp-imagemin:

gulp-imagemin: ✔ image1.png (already optimized)
gulp-imagemin: ✔ image2.png (saved 91 B - 0.4%)
silent

Type: boolean
Default: false

Don't log the number of images that have been minified.

You can also enable this from the command-line with the --silent flag if the option is not already specified.

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