Automating image compression locally
I recently poked around some command-line tools for compression. There are a lot of options, but the best seem to be pngquant and jpegoptim. They are fairly cross-platform and free. Both big bonuses in my book.
I want to use CLI tools because they:
Work across entire projects, not one file at a time
Are easy to automate (CI, build scripts, pre-deploy steps)
Produce consistent, repeatable results
Are not GUI tools which means no manual exporting required
Compressed using pngquant - 59,449 bytes
Step 1: Install the Tools
macOS (Homebrew)
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