Community Plugin

Gatsby Remark Images Anywhere

Get image from anywhere in your markdown:

---
title: Hello World
---

# Regular relative path
![relative path](./image.png)

# NetlifyCMS path
![relative from root path](/assets/image.png)

# Remote path
![cloud image](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1563377176922-062e6ae09ceb)

# Protocol relative path*
![cloud image](//images.ctfassets.net/1311eqff/image.png)

# Any of the above also works with <img />
<img src="./image.png" alt="hey" title="hello" />

Why

gatsby-remark-images is awesome. But if you use a CMS that paste remote url, or path that’s not relative to the markdown file itself, it won’t work. Originally this plugin was meant to find a way to feed remote images to gatsby-remark-images, but that didn’t work out. This is a simpler & more flexible image plugin supports.

doesn’t blur in or fade in image
~~doesn’t render fancy lazy load image~~ update: it now does via the loading html attribute.
will take any image paths as mentioned above & feed them to sharp
allow you to pass in more customized sharp methods (fix, fluid, resize)
allow you to write your own image template (so you can implement the stuff above by yourself, though I do want to support those by default)

Should I use this?

If you don’t use remote images or CMS, just use gatsby-remark-images
If you’re using vanilla NetlifyCMS, just use gatsby-remark-relative-images.
If you need remote image, try this one out!
If you don’t need remote images or CMS, but want more flexibility, try this one out.

Protocol relative path

See the whitelisted list here

Installation

yarn add gatsby-remark-images-anywhere
# or
npm install gatsby-remark-images-anywhere

//gatsby-config.js
{
  resolve: `gatsby-transformer-remark`,
  options: {
    plugins: [
      `gatsby-remark-images-anywhere`
    ],
  },
},

Requirement

Your projects need to have…

gatsby(!)
gatsby-source-filesystem
gatsby-transformer-remark
gatsby-transformer-sharp
gatsby-plugin-sharp

Configuration

{
  resolve: `gatsby-remark-images-anywhere`,
  options: {
    /**
     * @param {string} staticDir
     * Root folder for images. For example,
     * if your image path is `/assets/image.png`,
     * your image is located in `static/assets/image.png`,
     * then the staticDir is `static`.
     * You can also point it to whichever else folder you have locally.
     */
    staticDir: 'static',

    /**
     * @param {Function} createMarkup
     * A function that return string template for image
     * All sharp result will be passed in as arguments
     */
    createMarkup: ({ src, srcSet }) => `<img src="${src}" srcSet="${srcSet}" class="hey" />`

    /**
     * @param {'lazy' | 'eager' | 'auto'} loading 
     * Set the output markup's 'loading' attribute. Default: 'lazy'
     */
    loading: 'lazy',

    /**
     * @param {string} backgroundColor
     * Background color. Default: '#fff'
     */
    backgroundColor: '#fff',

    /**
     * @param {boolean} linkImagesToOriginal 
     * If enabled, wraps the default markup with an <a> tag pointing to the original image.
     * Default: false
     */
    linkImagesToOriginal: true,

    /**
     * @param {string | Function} wrapperStyle 
     * Inject styles to the image wrapper.
     * Also accept a function that receives all image data as arguments, i.e
     * ({ aspectRatio, width, height }) => `padding-bottom: ${height/2}px;`
     * Alternatively you can also attach additional class to `.gria-image-wrapper`
     */
    wrapperStyle: 'padding-bottom: 0.5rem;',

    /**
     * @param {'fluid' | 'fixed' | 'resize'} sharpMethod
     * Default: 'fluid'.
     */
    sharpMethod: 'fluid',

    /**
     * ...imageOptions
     * and any sharp image arguments (quality, maxWidth, etc.)
     */
    maxWidth: 650,
    quality: 50,
  }
}

Writing your own markup

Here’s the createMarkup signature:

type CreateMarkup = (args: CreateMarkupArgs, options?: MarkupOptions) => string;

interface CreateMarkupArgs {
  sharpMethod: SharpMethod;
  originSrc: string;
  title?: string;
  alt?: string;

  aspectRatio: number;
  src: string;
  srcSet?: string;
  srcWebp?: string;
  srcSetWebp?: string;
  base64?: string;
  tracedSVG?: string;
  
  // fixed, resize
  width?: number;
  height?: number;

  // fluid
  presentationHeight?: number;
  presentationWidth?: number;
  sizes?: string;
  originalImg?: string;
}

interface MarkupOptions {
  loading: 'lazy' | 'eager' | 'auto';
  linkImagesToOriginal: boolean;
  showCaptions: boolean;
  wrapperStyle: string | Function;
  backgroundColor: string;
  tracedSVG: boolean | Object;
  blurUp: boolean;
}

Example usage

Codesandbox demo of using this plugin in combination with gatsby-transformer-remark custom component to achieve gatsby-image-like benefits (blur up, lazy loading, aspect-ratio).