Description

vite-imagetools transforms images to more efficient file formats. This works great for images included via an import in the JS. However, Vite's url() references are only being half handled today. Vite's static asset handling does rename these assets to have a hash in their name. But the vite-imagetools plugin is never invoked, so we can't do think like change jpg/png images to webp.

Suggested solution

Invoke Vite plugins on asset URLs found in CSS just as is done for asset URLs found in JS

Alternative

No response

Additional context

This is one of the top feature requests in vite-imagetools: JonasKruckenberg/imagetools#563

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