How to use the Next.js Image component to automatically optimize hundreds of image. We held our biggest ever Next.js Conference on October 25, 2022 with over 110,000 registered developers, 55,000 online attendees, and hundreds attending in person in San Fransisco. We had photographers on site to capture the experience and we wanted to share the photos they took with the community. Instead of just sharing photos with a Google Drive link, we thought it’d be good idea to showcase these 350+ amazing photos in an image gallery that was fast, functional, and beautiful. We ended up building our own and open sourcing the code , making it easy for anyone to build their own image gallery. In this blog post, we’re going to share the techniques we used to build a performant image gallery site that can handle hundreds of large images and deliver a great user experience.…