PostCSS Image Inliner

PostCSS plugin to inline local/remote images.

.foo {
    /* Input example */
    background-image: url("https://placehold.it/10x10");
}

.foo {
  /* Output example */
  background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAo ... ORK5CYII=");
}

Installation

npm i -D postcss postcss-image-inliner

Usage

const postcss = require('postcss');
const imageInliner = require('postcss-image-inliner');
const opts = {
    assetPaths: [],     // List of directories where the inliner should look for assets
    maxFileSize: 10240  // Sets a max file size (in bytes)
};

postcss([ imageInliner(opts) ]);

See PostCSS docs for examples for your environment.

Options

assetPaths

• Type: array
• Default: [process.cwd()]
• Example: ['http://domain.de/', 'http://domain.de/styles', 'app/images', '**/images/']
• Required: false

List of directories/URLs where the inliner should start looking for assets. You can define local directories (globs supported) or URLs.

maxFileSize

• Type: int
• Default: 10240
• Example: 0
• Required: false

Sets a max file size (in bytes) for inlined images. Set to 0 to disable size checking.

b64Svg

• Type: bool
• Default: false
• Required: false

Use Base64 encoding for SVGs.

strict

• Type: bool
• Default: false
• Required: false

Fail on error.