Pic Smaller is a super easy-to-use online image compression tool. Its UI is intuitive and supports compression configuration. At the same time, because it is purely local compression without any server-side logic, it is completely safe.

Pic smaller has been deployed to vercel, you can use it by visiting the URL pic-smaller.vercel.app. Due to the GFW, Chinese users can use it by visiting the URL picsmaller.com

picsmaller.com is a new domain that has just been applied for. The old domain txx.cssrefs.com is still accessible, but will be expired on 2025-02-22 and payment will not continue. Please use the latest domain to access the service.

Pic smaller a Vite + React project, you have to get familiar with them first. It uses modern browser technologies such as OffscreenCanvas, WebAssembly, and Web Worker. You should also be familiar with them before developing.

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/joye61/pic-smaller.git

# Change cwd
cd ./pic-smaller

# Install dependences
npm install

# Start to develop
npm run dev

If you want to independently deploy this project on your own server, the following document based on Docker, and Dockerfile script has been tested. Within the project root directory, follow the instructions to start docker application

# Build docker image from Dockerfile
docker build -t picsmaller .

# Start a container
docker run -p 3001:3001 -d picsmaller

Now you can access the project via http://127.0.0.1:3001. If you want your project to be accessible to everyone, you need to prepare a domain name pointing to your local machine, and then proxy it to port 3001 of this machine, through a reverse proxy server like nginx.

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