Stop Pre-Generating Image Thumbnails in Laravel — Do It On-The-Fly Instead

Every Laravel project eventually hits the same wall: a designer asks for a new image size, and suddenly you're writing a migration, a queue job, and a Media Library conversion — just to serve a 400px thumbnail. There's a simpler way. Generate image variants on demand, cache the result permanently, and move on. That's exactly what laravel-imagepresets does. The Problem With Pre-Generated Thumbnails When you pre-generate image variants (the approach Spatie Media Library encourages by default), you