Resoc Image Template Development Kit

Generate personalized, content-rich, branded images for social media and other purposes:

• You create an image template using HTML and CSS, once for all
• Resoc generates thousands of images based on this template

Resoc uses Puppeteer/Chromium to turn your template into regular JPG/PNG images.

Quick start

npx itdk init my-new-resoc-template
# ... and follow the white rabbit

Features

The features you need to get the job done easily:

• Viewer for OpenGraph/Facebook and Twitter Card images, with auto-reload
• Integrate Resoc to your CI/CD via command line or from your JS code
• Parameter declaration so you clearly define what your template is expecting: a post title, an author profile picture...

Image templates

Image templates are made of HTML and CSS, with a little bit of Mustache. Mustache is a simple templating language you use to handle parameters. For example, if you build a template to create the social images of a blog, you might take parameters for the title, featured image URL, author's name, etc.

An image template is made of:

• A manifest, named resoc.manifest.json by default. This file declares the template parameters. It also lists the ressources that will be run through Mustache to set parameter values.
• An HTML file, which will be rendered as an image. This file can access parameters via Mustache.
• All other files you need: CSS, JS...

Browse the starter template as an example.

View and debug

You can view a template in action with:

npx itdk view path/to/resoc.manifest.json

The command opens a browser with the viewer:

It parses your image template manifest and shows a form, matching the template's parameters. Edit the values to see the result.

At the bottom of the viewer, a sample command line lets you generate the corresponding image:

Generate

Command line

Create images from the command line with create-img:

npm install -g create-img
create-img path/top/resoc.manifest.json -o output-image.jpg --params title="A picture is worth a thousand words" mainImageUrl="https://resoc.io/assets/img/demo/photos/pexels-photo-371589.jpeg" textColor="#ffffff" backgroundColor="#20552a" -w 1200 -h 630

Note that the viewer displays a sample command line you can copy and edit.

API

You can call the image generation right from your code. Install the package:

npm install @resoc/create-img

Then:

import { compileLocalTemplate } from "@resoc/create-img"

await compileLocalTemplate(
    'path/to/resoc.manifest.json',
    {
        title: 'A picture is worth a thousand words',
        mainImageUrl: 'https://resoc.io/assets/img/demo/photos/pexels-photo-371589.jpeg',
        textColor: '#ffffff',
        backgroundColor: '#20552a',
        resoc_imageWidth: '1200',
        resoc_imageHeight: '630'
    },
    'output.jpg');