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I have a "generator" site[1] where people are able create/share a "fairly" unique image (billions of potential combos) rendered in the dom. There's no point pre-rendering every possible version of a all-but unique social image, so instead I generate them on the fly as they are requested (i.e someone shares one).

In my case I actually render them on the client using dom-to-image[2] and then store/cache them using R2. This is basically to save on server costs (it's hosted on free CF pages with a worker). A more secure implementation (with a compute budget) might use a headless browser like this server side to render the image.

[1] perfectpollie.au

[2] npmjs.com/dom-to-image




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