@scottpdawson Yeah, that's what I do.
And sadly not, the image transformation happens when served via the CDN, so it's not possible to do that locally until it has been deployed.
I sometimes add redirects for nicer URLs. Then I can use them locally to get transformed assets via netlify dev
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