Setting up Pintura Image Editor with NextJS

For a quick start use the NextJS example project included in the product package as a guideline ('/presets/nextjs'). It includes a normal, modal, and overlay editor example as well as an integration of FilePond and Pintura Image Editor.

For the most part the NextJS installation process is the same as the React installation process, we only have to make a couple additional adjutments to the next.config.js file.

Adjusting the next.config.js file

When using NextJS 13 we need to set the swcMinify property to false as it somehow results in a client-side error, NextJS will then fallback to Terser. Investigation ongoing.

The next part is only needed on NextJS version 12 and lower.

We install next-transpile-module to transpile the Pintura modules.

npm i next-transpile-modules --save

Then we edit the config file as shown below.

const withTM = require('next-transpile-modules')([
    '@pqina/pintura',
    '@pqina/react-pintura',
]);

module.exports = withTM();

Next steps

With the editor set up, we can continue to configure the editor to our liking by adjusting the available options exposed by the editor API