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by thirdsun 2841 days ago
I think this is a task that is handled by an optional CMS, not the static site generator itself, though I agree it would be handy to have a little helper snippet to do that during build.

There are CMS solutions for static sites which will probably handle images, and all kinds of content, easily. Check out Dato[1], Siteleaf[2] or Netlify CMS[3].

Alternatively you can use external tools to prepare your images and simply rely on the standard HTML srcset within your static site generator of choice. I use RetroBatch[4] to prepare my images.

[1] https://www.datocms.com/

[2] https://www.siteleaf.com

[3] https://www.netlifycms.org/

[4] https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/