Hasty Treat - The New AVIF Image Format Is Unreal

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about AVIF — what it is and how you might use it!

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Show Notes

03:10 - What is AVIF?

• AVIF is derived from the keyframes of an AV1 video
• Royalty free (big deal)
• What about WebP?
• Basically half the file size of a WebP for free, which was already about half the size of a jpeg
• It’s a lossy format — ie it inherently will degrade the image
• https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/
• No animation

10:53 - How to implement

• Cloudinary is in beta, but you can try it
• Gatsby supports it
• https://squoosh.app/
• Imagemin
• https://github.com/nucliweb/imagemin-avif
• https://avif.io/
• https://github.com/dreampiggy/AVIFQuickLook
• https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/20765

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