Generating Thumbnails Dynamically on the Client

A case for client-side thumbnail generation when you have no control over the backend and thumbnails would improve your UX

Drew Tate
Better Programming
Published in
3 min readAug 10, 2019

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Client Computing

I’ll start this with a disclaimer: it’s nearly always best to generate thumbnails server-side. It’s fast and doesn’t duplicate computation over multiple clients. In most cases, I…

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A technologist with an interest in software architecture and development processes. I write about both the machine and the machine that makes the machine.