There are two pieces to og-image
that are worth noting before you begin development.
- The backend image generator located in /api/index.ts
- The html/css template used to generate the image is located in /_lib/template.ts
- The frontend inputs located in /web/index.ts
Vercel handles routing in an elegant way for us so deployment is easy.
To start hacking, do the following:
- Clone this repo with
git clone https://github.com/vercel/og-image
- Change directory with
cd og-image
- Run
yarn
ornpm install
to install all dependencies - Run locally with
vercel dev
and visit localhost:3000 (if nothing happens, runnpm install -g vercel
) - If necessary, edit the
exePath
in options.ts to point to your local Chrome executable
Now you're ready to start local development!
You can set an environment variable to assist with debugging export OG_HTML_DEBUG=1
. This will render the image as HTML so you can play around with your browser's dev tools before committing changes to the template.