daltons is a command-line tool that computes optimal image widths to put in srcset attributes of responsive images.
We want to provide the best experience to our clients’ users, so optimizing web performance is one of our main concerns.
Using responsive images in every projects, we wanted to be able to make it as efficient as possible. The main difficulty is choosing the image widths we put in srcset attributes, because nothing in the standard tells us about this.
It takes 3 steps for daltons to find the best widths to put in the srcset attribute of a responsive image:
- take Real User Monitoring (RUM) of viewport widths and screen densities
- list the image’s widths across all of these viewport widths
- compute the optimal image widths to put in the
srcsetattribute to cover all these needs
Learn more in the full documentation.
To install and run this application, you’ll need Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer.
From your command line, install daltons as a global package:
npm i -g github:cleverage/daltons
Then run it with the -h option to get help:
npx daltons -h
Or see detailed options in the full documentation and look at examples and use cases.
- Nicolas Hoizey: Idea and initial work, maintainer
- Yvain Liechti: Early contributor, maintainer
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.
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