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Hasty Treat - The New AVIF Image Format Is Unreal

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about AVIF — what it is and how you might use it! Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. 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 Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday, open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,

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CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,

0:10.0

breakdancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toro Loco Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax in this Monday hasty treat.

0:31.0

We're going to be talking all about the new unreal image format called Avif.

0:36.4

You know what the pronunciation on that? It's an image format. We had jay peg, we had

0:40.0

ping, we had p. and g whatever. Now we have avif and let me tell you it is a very very cool it's also very small

0:47.6

so we're going to be talking all about what it is why you might use it how you might use it and what the future looks like for Avif. My name is

0:54.8

Scott Tolinsky. I'm a full-stack developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as

0:58.3

always is West Bals. Hey! Hey Wes! This episode is sponsored by two awesome companies, one of which is Century at

1:05.4

Century.io and the other which is Fresh Books. Now Century is the perfect place to see all

1:09.7

your errors and exceptions happening in your application.

1:13.0

It does an amazing job at cataloging all of your errors

1:16.5

in its dashboard.

1:17.8

It's very cool.

1:18.7

And along with that, it gives you some really

1:21.0

interesting features like performance tracking tools

1:24.0

the light of just about every single route on your application and get the perfect

1:28.5

metrics that you need to debug any sort of performance issues that are happening

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