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When prototyping UI designs or code, we often need images to put in places when we have no finalized images in the design, or in order to test out different sizes and colors when only some are provided.

I find myself needing to find an image to use when developing websites and apps often, and finding a mock image to upload is time consuming - not to mention leaves possibly unwanted files in your code or design.

So what do we do?

Enter: placeholder.photo.

As most people who have been working a lot in front-end development, I will acknowledge that no matter what framework, library set or tools you work with, you end up replicating a lot of files, especially with modern component-based frameworks, such as React, Angular and Vue.js.

They usually grow to be very different, but they almost always start with the same some sort of base-skeleton, which gets built-upon later. A lot of pipeline code written, and time wasted.