CDN Image Proxy

When developing locally, it’s common to use a database dump from a production site. With large sites, it’s also common that the production site’s image uploads cannot be easily copied to the local environment, because there are simply too many of them.

While local environments like Pilothouse allow you to easily proxy image uploads to your local environment from the production site, that doesn’t work so well if you add or change one of the registered thumbnail sizes in your local copy of the theme, since the new thumbnail size can’t be proxied from production as it doesn’t exist there. You’re also not able to regenerate the needed thumbnail sizes locally, because the original image file is not present locally.

CDN Image Proxy solves this problem b…