Added new method to resize images

[Hoppi164]

Hi there

There is an issue when trying to resize images using gulp
I encountered the same error that is listed in this issue #37

This seems to be an internal issue with gulp which completely stops the 'resizing' functionality from working.
I've designed an alternate method to efficiently resize the images into "full" and "thumb" folders.
you can execute this script by running npm run resize

[rampatra]

Thanks a mil for raising this PR and wanting to improve this project. It looks good to me and can merge it once we have some more 👍 from other users. I hope that's okay?

[Hoppi164]

My pleasure!, and yeah that's totally fine by me :)

[Hoppi164]

Hi Ram.

It's been 5 months, and I wanted to check-in on this.

I'm still okay for this to be merged if you're happy with it?

If you've decided not to progress with this approach: please let me know and I'll close out this PR

Kind Regards
Drew

[rampatra]

Hi @Hoppi164 ,

Apologies for not responding earlier. I can merge it now if you're still interested? Also, did you try setting it as a devDependency instead?

[Hoppi164]

Hey @rampatra

All good mate, No need to apologize,
I closed this PR because i felt it had gotten stale, and i wanted to clean up my list of PR's
I'm still happy for you to merge this PR.

I changed the "sharp" dependancy to a "dev dependancy" in this second commit d263ede

Kind Regards
Andrew

[rampatra]

That's great @Hoppi164 so can we please get rid of the unused dependency block in package.json ?

Update: I modified it.

[rampatra]

Would it be possible to specify a height here and just the width? This will maintain the aspect ratio of the images I think?

[Hoppi164]

Hi there,

Do you mean specifying JUST the height?
Like below?

let sizeMap = {
    'full' : { height:768, location:'./images/fulls'},
    'thumb' : { height:256, location:'./images/thumbs'}
}

[Hoppi164]

I feel it might be better to maintain the aspect ratio based on the width instead.
I think that's what you're doing in the previous gulpfile too.

Are you happy with the below width approach?

let sizeMap = {
    'full' : { width:1024, location:'./images/fulls'},
    'thumb' : { width:512, location:'./images/thumbs'}
}

[Hoppi164]

Hi Ram,

Oh i see what you mean with the package.json empty dependancy
Sorry for the slow reply, and thanks for fixing that.