Blur hash (base64) for images

[Francismori7]

Hey!

Just wondering if perhaps the storefront API could make available a blur hash within images. I was planning on implementing something like that on Shopify Hydrogen, but since that would increase page load, that seems counterintuitive.

If however the storefront API itself made it available, we could use the hash to display a blurred image (see Plaiceholder or Next/Image) until the requested image is fully loaded on the client.

Since the Shopify CDN already plays a role into image optimization, I'm not sure it would be a big issue implementing a basic blurhash on it.

Thanks!

[frehner]

Blurhashes would be a great addition, and would be a nice improvement that we could add to Hydrogen's <Image/> component!

[jobveldhuis]

Seconding this. I'm currently running into places where I really want to give my user some visual feedback while lazy loading big images and incorporated blurhash would make my life so much better.

[fcisio]

Has there been any progress on this? I would also really like to see this feature.