Auto generate social media images

[daKmoR]

There are multiple options

here is one starting point

• https://www.juanfernandes.uk/blog/automated-open-graph-images-with-11ty-and-cloudinary/
• https://github.com/jlengstorf/get-share-image#readme

questions:

• use a service?
• or local image generation?
• we will need image optimization anyways so tool should be available
• how to cache, ...

[bennypowers]

maybe recommend to cache at edge servers, or use a function to download a copy once generated to assets

[daKmoR]

another nice approach using wasm https://codepunkt.de/writing/generating-beautiful-open-graph-images-with-nodejs/

[daKmoR]

official eleventy image plugin can be used as well

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-img/issues/40

[bennypowers]

yeah that's good stuff, I'm leaning towards the official plugin, but does it do the kind of layering and text manipulation we need?

[daKmoR]

I think so... seems to support full svg rendering 👍

[daKmoR]

has been implemented via @11ty/eleventy-img 💪