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Real-time image resizing, automatic optimization, and file uploading in Angular using ImageKit.io.
This quick start guide shows you how to integrate ImageKit into an Angular application. The code samples covered here are hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/imagekit-samples/quickstart/tree/master/angular.
This guide walks you through the following topics: ‌

Setup ImageKit Angular SDK

For this tutorial, it is recommended to create an Angular dummy app, as shown below.
Create an Angular app:
We will be using the following in this guide:
  • Node version 14.21.1
  • Angular version 15
Let's use the ng new <project name> CLI utility provided by Angular to build a new project:
ng new imagekit-angular-app
Navigate to the project directory:
cd imagekit-angular-app/
Open up the project in your text editor of choice, and navigate to src/app/. This is where we will do most of our work.
Install libraries (if not already):
npm install
Now run the app:
npm start
In your web browser, navigate to http://localhost:4200/
You should see the dummy app created by Angular CLI.
For simplicity, let's remove everything from src/app/app.component.html so we can begin with a clean slate.
Let's add one line in src/app/app.component.html to title our page :
<h1>Imagekit Angular Demo</h1>
Now we can begin our work.
Install the ImageKit Angular SDK:
Installing the ImageKit Angular SDK in our app is pretty simple:
npm install --save imagekitio-angular

Initialize the Angular SDK:

Before the SDK can be used, let's learn about and obtain the requisite initialization parameters:
  • urlEndpoint is a required parameter. This can be obtained from the URL-endpoint section or the developer section on your ImageKit dashboard.
  • publicKey and authenticationEndpoint parameters are optional and only needed if you want to use the SDK for client-side file upload. These can be obtained from the developer section on your ImageKit dashboard.
Note: Do not include your private key in any client-side code.
ImageKit Components:
The SDK includes 3 Components and the ability to access the core component:
  • ik-image for image resizing. This renders a <img> tag.
  • ik-video for video resizing. This renders a <video> tag.
  • ik-upload for client-side file uploading. This renders a <input type="file"> tag.
Accessing the underlying ImageKit javascript SDK. See here for more details.
Note: URL endpoints of each component can be overridden explicitly. See here for more details

Configure the app for ImageKit:

Let's import the SDK.
src/app/app.module.ts
import { ImagekitioAngularModule } from 'imagekitio-angular';
...
@NgModule({
...
imports: [
...
ImagekitioAngularModule.forRoot({
publicKey: environment.publicKey,
urlEndpoint: environment.urlEndpoint,
authenticationEndpoint: environment.authenticationEndpoint
})
],
...
})
...

Rendering images

Loading image from relative path:
Let's use the default image that we have. It should be available at the following URL:
https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/default-image.jpg
Let's fetch and display it! For this, we will use the ik-image component.
We use the tag <ik-image> for rendering images. For now, we will do a simple image rendering with a path prop. For a full list of options, check here
Let's insert the following into app.component.html.
src/app/app.component.html
<ik-image
urlEndpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/"
path="default-image.jpg">
</ik-image>
Rendered HTML element:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-vpo-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg">
Your Angular app should now display the default image in its full size:
Full sized image (1000px x 1000 px)
You can pass styles and other attributes as props. For e.g. let's add 400px width by adding the transformation.width prop:
Let's try creating a transformation object in app.component.ts.
src/app/app.component.ts
import { Transformation } from 'imagekit-javascript/dist/src/interfaces/Transformation';
...
export class AppComponent {
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
width: "400"
}];
...
}
And now, we can use it in app.component.html as such:
src/app/app.component.html
<ik-image
urlEndpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/"
path="default-image.jpg"
[transformation]="transformation"
>
</ik-image>
This is how the output should look now:
Resized image (width=400px)
Note that here we have set the width to 400px at the <img> tag level only. Intrinsically, the fetched image is still 1000px wide.
There are other transformations available - see the list of different tranformations
Loading image from an absolute path:
If you have an absolute image path coming from the backend API e.g. https://www.custom-domain.com/default-image.jpg, then you can use the src prop to load the image.
For example:
<ik-image
src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/default-image.jpg"
>
</ik-image>
The output looks like this:
Render image on custom domain via absolute path

Basic image manipulation

Let’s now learn how to manipulate images using transformations.
The Angular SDK gives a name to each transformation parameter, e.g., height for h and width for the w parameter. It makes your code more readable. If the property does not match any of the available options, it is added as it is. See the full list of supported transformations in Angular SDK on GitHub.
You can also use h and w parameters instead of height and width. See the complete list of transformations supported in ImageKit here.

Height and width manipulation

‌To resize an image along with its height or width, we need to pass the transformation object as a prop to ik-image.
Let’s resize the default image to 200px height and width:
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
height: "200",
width: "200"
}];
...
}
src/app/app.component.html
<ik-image
urlEndpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/"
path="default-image.jpg"
[transformation]="transformation"
>
</ik-image>
Rendered HTML element:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/tr:h-400,w-400/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-qos-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" class="lazyload" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-transformation="[object Object]">
Refresh your browser to get the resized image.
Resized Image (200x200px)

Quality manipulation

You can use the quality parameter to change image quality like this:
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
width: "400",
quality: "10"
}];
...
}
Rendered HTML:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/tr:w-400,q-10/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-hfw-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-transformation="[object Object]">
Quality manipulation (q=10)

Crop mode

Let’s now see how cropping works. We will try the extract crop strategy. In this strategy, instead of resizing the whole image, we extract a region of the requested dimension from the original image. You can read more about this here.
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
height: "300",
width: "200",
cropMode: "extract"
}];
...
}
Rendered HTML element:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/tr:h-300,w-200,cm-extract/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-vjd-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-transformation="[object Object]">
Crop Mode Extract (200x300px)

Chained transformation

Chained transformations provide a simple way to control the sequence in which transformations are applied.
Let’s try it out by resizing an image, then rotating it:
First, we will apply resizing transformations:
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
height: "300",
width: "200",
}];
...
}
Transformation URL:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/tr:h-300,w-200/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-dsh-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-transformation="[object Object]">
Resized and cropped (200x300px)
Now, rotate the image by 90 degrees.
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
height: "300",
width: "200",
}, {
rt: "90"
}
];
...
}
Chained Transformation URL:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/tr:h-300,w-200:rt-90/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-cqk-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-transformation="[object Object],[object Object">
Resized, then rotated
Let’s flip the order of transformation and see what happens.
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
rt: "90"
},{
height: "300",
width: "200",
}
];
...
}
Chained Transformation URL:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/tr:rt-90:h-300,w-200/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-lvp-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-transformation="[object Object],[object Object">
Rotated, then resized

Adding overlays to images

ImageKit.io allows you to add text and image overlay dynamically.
For example, a text overlay can be used to superimpose text on an image. Try it like so:
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
height: "300",
width: "300",
overlayText: 'ImageKit',
overlayTextFontSize: "50",
overlayTextColor: '0651D5',
}];
...
}
Rendered HTML element:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/tr:h-300,w-300,ot-ImageKit,ots-50,otc-0651D5/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-twl-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-transformation="[object Object]">
Text Overlay (300x300px)

Lazy-loading images in Angular

You can lazy load images using the loading prop in the ik-image component. When you use loading="lazy", all images that are immediately viewable without scrolling load normally. Those that are far below the device viewport are only fetched when the user scrolls near them.
The SDK uses a fixed threshold based on the effective connection type to ensure that images are loaded early enough so that they have finished loading once the user scrolls near to them.
You should always set the height and width of the image element to avoid layout shift when lazy-loading images.
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
height: "300"
width: "400"
}];
...
}
You should always set the height and width of the image element to avoid layout shift when lazy-loading images.
src/app/app.component.html
<ik-image
path={{path}}
urlEndpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/"
[transformation]="transformation"
loading="lazy"
height="300"
width="400"
>
</ik-image>
Rendered HTML element:
<img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/tr:h-300,w-400/default-image.jpg" _ngcontent-vnv-c15="" urlendpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" loading="lazy" ng-reflect-url-endpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/" ng-reflect-loading="lazy" ng-reflect-path="default-image.jpg" ng-reflect-transformation="[object Object]">

Blurred image placeholder

To improve user experience, you can use a low-quality blurred variant of the original image as a placeholder while the original image is being loaded in the background. Once the loading of the original image is finished, the placeholder is replaced with the original image.
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
width: "400",
}];
lqip = {
active: true, quality: 20
};
...
}
src/app/app.component.html
<ik-image
path={{path}}
urlEndpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/"
[transformation]="transformation"
[lqip]="lqip"
>
</ik-image>

Combining lazy loading with low-quality placeholders

You have the option to lazy-load the original image only when the user scrolls near them. Until then, only a low-quality placeholder is loaded. This saves a lot of network bandwidth if the user never scrolls further down.
src/app/app.component.ts
...
transformation: Array<Transformation> = [{
height:"300",
width: "400",
}];
lqip = {
active: true
};
...
}
src/app/app.component.html
// Loading a blurred low quality image placeholder
// and lazy-loading original when the user scrolls near them
<ik-image
path={{path}}
urlEndpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/"
[transformation]="transformation"
[lqip]="lqip"
loading="lazy"
>
</ik-image>

Uploading files in Angular

Let's now learn how to upload an image to our media library.
Angular SDK provides ik-upload component, which renders an input type="file" tag that you can use to upload files to the ImageKit media library directly from the client-side.
To implement this functionality, a backend server is needed to authenticate the request using your API private key.

Setup the backend app

For this quickstart guide, we will create a sample Node.js server that will provide an authentication endpoint at http://localhost:3000/auth.
Let's a new folder, server, and create files app.js and package.json inside the new folder in the project root.
mkdir server
touch server/app.js
Package.json should look like:
{
"name": "server",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Sample server for file upload using Imagekit SDK",
"main": "app.js",
"scripts": {
"server": "nodemon app"
},
"devDependencies": {
"cors": "^2.8.5",
"crypto": "^1.0.1",
"dotenv": "^8.2.0",
"express": "^4.17.1",
"nodemon": "^2.0.2",
"router": "^1.3.3",
"uuid": "^3.3.3"
}
}
Now do npm install.
Next we setup the content for app.js.
app.js
server/app.js
const dotenv = require('dotenv');
const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
var cors = require('cors');
const app = express();
app.use(cors());
dotenv.config();
const uuid = require('uuid');
const crypto = require("crypto");
const privateKey = process.env.PRIVATE_KEY;
router.get("/auth", function(req, res) {
var token = req.query.token || uuid.v4();
var expire = req.query.expire || parseInt(Date.now()/1000)+2400;
var privateAPIKey = `${privateKey}`;
var signature = crypto.createHmac('sha1', privateAPIKey).update(token+expire).digest('hex');
res.status(200);
res.send({
token : token,
expire : expire,
signature : signature
});
});
app.use("/",router);
app.listen(3000,function(){
console.log("Live at Port 3000");
});
We would also need a .env file to indicate value for PRIVATE_KEY. This can be taken from your imagekit account's setting page where PUBLIC_KEY can also be found. Sample .env file should look like this.
PRIVATE_KEY=<your-private-key>
authenticationEndpoint should be implemented in your backend. The SDK makes an HTTP GET request to this endpoint and expects a JSON response with three fields i.e. signature, token, and expire. Learn how to implement authenticationEndpoint on your server.
Let's run the backend server.
cd server
npm run server
You should see a log saying that the app is “Live on port 3000”.
If you GET http://localhost:3000/auth, you should see a JSON response like this. Actual values will vary.
{
token: "5dd0e211-8d67-452e-9acd-954c0bd53a1f",
expire: 1601047259,
signature: "dcb8e72e2b6e98186ec56c62c9e62886f40eaa96"
}

Configure authentication in the frontend app

Now that we have our authentication server up and running, let's configure the publicKey and authenticationEndpoint in the frontend Angular app:
Add the following to src/app/app.module.js file to initialize the SDK with auth params:
publicKey: "<YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY>",
authenticationEndpoint: "<YOUR_AUTH_ENDPOINT e.g http:/localhost:3000/auth>"

Upload an image

For this, we will use the ik-upload component as well as a couple of event handlers for upload error and success, onError and onSuccess respectively. Let's use it in our app.component.html file:
<ik-upload
fileName="test.jpg"
(onError)="handleUploadError($event)"
(onSuccess)="handleUploadSuccess($event)"
>
</ik-upload>
This is how it looks in the UI:
Upload Image
Direct file uploading from the browser
Let’s now upload an image by selecting a file from the file input.
When you choose a file, the file is immediately uploaded. You can pass optional onSuccess and onError callback functions as props like we have.
You can verify that file was successfully uploaded by checking the browser console. In case of success, it should print a success message, like this:
Upload Success Response
The response object would look similar to this (values may vary):
{
"fileId": "63a2e985e809dd54b027a563",
"name": "test_RiCBw0ouh.jpg",
"size": 36919,
"versionInfo": {
"id": "63a2e985e809dd54b027a563",
"name": "Version 1"
},
"filePath": "/test_RiCBw0ouh.jpg",
"url": "https://ik.imagekit.io/yzyzyz/test_RiCBw0ouh.jpg",
"fileType": "image",
"height": 500,
"width": 500,
"thumbnailUrl": "https://ik.imagekit.io/yzyzyz/tr:n-ik_ml_thumbnail/test_RiCBw0ouh.jpg",
"AITags": null
}
After a successful upload, you should see the newly uploaded image in the Media Library section of your ImageKit dashboard.
If you don't see the image, check if there are any errors in the browser console log. Then verify whether the API private key has been configured correctly in the server app and if the server app is running.
Fetching uploaded file
Fetch the uploaded image and show in UI using ik-image with the filePath returned in the upload response.
<ik-image path="/test_RiCBw0ouh.png" ></ik-image>
The app should display your uploaded image correctly!

Advanced file upload

A more detailed example of how to use the file upload component (and an explanation of each advanced feature) is presented below:
src/app/app.component.ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { Transformation } from 'imagekit-javascript/dist/src/interfaces/Transformation';
@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
templateUrl: './app.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
validateFileFunction(res: any) {
console.log('validating')
if(res.size < 1000000){ // Less than 1mb
return true;
}
return false;
}
onUploadStartFunction(res: any) {
console.log('onUploadStart')
}
onUploadProgressFunction(res: any) {
console.log('progressing')
}
handleUploadSuccess(res: any) {
console.log('File upload success with response: ', res);
console.log(res.$ResponseMetadata.statusCode); // 200
console.log(res.$ResponseMetadata.headers); // headers
this.uploadedImageSource = res.url;
}
handleUploadError(err: any) {
console.log('There was an error in upload: ', err);
this.uploadErrorMessage = 'File upload failed.';
}
}

Custom Upload Button

The buttonRef property for ik-upload can be used so that the file selector component inside ik-upload will be invisible. This allows you to create your own button, with your own stylings, and reference it using #<buttonRefValue>.
Here's an example:
<div>
<!-- This will be invisible -->
<ik-upload
[buttonRef]="myBtn"
>
</ik-upload>
<!-- Your own button! -->
<button #myBtn type="Button" class="myOwnClass" style="color:blue">
Upload
</button>
</div>

Upload start

The onUploadStart prop is called when the file upload starts. This can be used for common use cases like showing a spinner, progress bar, etc.

Show progress bar

The onUploadProgress prop can be passed like above, which will have a ProgressEvent. This can be used to show the percentage of upload progress to the end user.

Validate file before upload

Arbitrary validation (file type, file size, file name) etc can be added using the validateFile prop. An example has been added above that shows how to prevent upload if the file size is bigger than 1 MB.

Additional options to the upload function

All the parameters supported by the ImageKit Upload API can be passed as shown above (e.g. extensions, webhookUrl, customMetadata etc.)

Rendering videos

Rendering videos works similarly to rendering images in terms of usage of urlEndpoint param.
Loading video from relative path:
src/app/app.component.html
<ik-video
urlEndpoint="https://ik.imagekit.io/demo/"
path="sample-video.mp4"
controls=true
>
</ik-video>

What's next

The possibilities for image manipulation and optimization with ImageKit are endless. Learn more about it here:
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