If this sounds like your week
Format debates are fun until you have 6,000 deliverables.
The query “Astro static image folder WebP AVIF batch before deploy” is usually about shipping WebP, AVIF, or sane JPEG—without a bespoke script per shoot. Content collections accumulate PNG heroes from design; `astro build` does not magically shrink upstream laziness when pixels ship untouched.
Where tooling usually breaks
Browser converters are a queue with your files in the middle.
Upload, wait, download, repeat. That is not a pipeline; it is a ritual.