Transforming Images Using AI Without Leaving Your React App - React Summit 2023 - Luis Ball

From the stage of React Summit 2023, Luis Ball (Senior Software Engineer @ imgix.com) shares how optimization libraries abstract away the hard parts of working with images so that you can focus on shipping. But these tools don’t let you do complex transformations to your existing images. Adding text, removing distracting backgrounds, or upscaling images to higher resolution require you to download, transform, and re-upload your images. This talk will explore using AI image APIs and unpic-image to handle complex image transformations inside our React applications. We’ll remove and replace image…