Connect Placeholder

A connect middleware to generate placeholder images

Connect Placeholder generates PNG images on the flight. Could be use as a replacement for Placehold.it.

Image generation relies on node-pureimage by Josh Marinacci.

This middleware is primarily intended as a development middleware for grunt-contrib-connect.

Note: this is a work in progress. Expect performance issues and headaches.

Install

Install via npm:

npm install connect-placeholderimg  --save-dev

Usage

In your Gruntfile.js connect task require the module inside a middleware option:

connect: {
    options: {
        middleware: function(connect, options, middlewares) {
          middlewares.unshift(require('connect-placeholderimg')({
          	imagePath: '/placeholder/'
          }));
          return middlewares;
        }
    }
    ...
}

Then, assuming the default connect task configuration is in place, point images src attribute to http://localhost:8000/placeholder/WxH.

For URL format please refer to Placehold.it

Options

imagePath

Type: String Default: '/placeholder/'

The base URI for placeholder images.

Release History

• 2014-12-31   v0.0.1   WIP release