Next Image Trace Loader

Display a SVG traced image while your images lazy load for NextJS projects.

A wrapper of image-trace-loader and next/image

Was truly inspired by Gatsby sites that use Image Trace and wanted to achieve the same look in my Next projects.

Works out of the box with Next 10, if you need more customization you may want to copy the source and import the dependencies image-trace-loader, file-loader, and url-loader.

Example

View site: https://next-image-trace-loader.vercel.app/

Getting started

Install the component to your project.

yarn add next-image-trace-loader

# or

npm install next-image-trace-loader

Update your next.config.js to trace images as SVGs.

// next.config.js

const tracedImages = {
  test: /\.(png|jpe?g|gif|jp2|webp)$/,
  use: [
    {
      loader: 'image-trace-loader'
    }
  ]
}

module.exports = {
  webpack: (config, options) => {
    config.module.rules.push(tracedImages)
    return config
  }
}

Usage in your project

Basic Usage:

import ImageTrace from "next-image-trace-loader"
import ringPlanet from '../public/planet-1.png'

export default function Home() {
  return (
    <>
      <ImageTrace
        src='/planet-1.png'
        trace={ringPlanet.trace}
        nextImageProps={{width: 800, height: 400}}
      />
    </>
  )
}

When using layout=fill with next/image we need to send in width and height properties that will be styled on the divs that wrap the images.

import ImageTrace from "next-image-trace-loader"
import ringPlanet from '../public/planet-1.png'

export default function Home() {
  return (
    <>
      <ImageTrace
        src='/planet-1.png'
        trace={ringPlanet.trace}
        width='800px'
        height='400px'
        nextImageProps={{layout: 'fill'}}
      />
    </>
  )
}