Cache images generated by ipx locally

[MickL]

It seems like locally ipx is regenerating all images every time the website reloaded. Is it possible to cache the generated images?

• I have 20 images on one page, they come from AWS S3 and take 3-8s every time I reload the page
• This also produces unnecessary traffic to my the file storage

In contrast: Deployed to Vercel images are cached

[BananaAcid]

Same problem, different case: a 22mb file ist generated on the fly each time, taking 5secs to load … having the generated files locally cached, would be a dream.

In the meantime, we added nginx in front of any Nuxt project just for caching images -

[vonec]

may be some flag to force regeneration would be useful, it can check if image exists and move on

[Aareksio]

I'd slap "out of scope" on this feature request. Caching is difficult, especially as scale increases. A basic cache layer could be added as opt-in via middleware. However, adding external layer on top of your nuxt app should be a better solution for deployment (CDN - cloudflare, vercel; cache as proxy - eg. nginx).

Linking #795 as it seems related, there are comments there about caching ipx results in not only SSG but also SSR.

[MickL]

An external layer is not an option. This issue is solely about adding caching for local development.

[MickL]

Closing this as a duplicate of #795