Long term caching for images

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• nuxt: ^2.15.6
• nuxt/image: "^0.4.14",

Hey everyone and thank you for this great package.

I'm facing an issue with Lighthouse extension of chrome and i cannot fix it.

Here is my image component from the code:

  <nuxt-img
      src="/img/insurance/hero.jpg"
      class="h-full w-full object-cover"
      sizes="sm:375px md:768px lg:1024px"
      height="400"
/>

and here is the generated code:

<img 
   src="/_ipx/img/insurance/hero.jpg?s=1024_400" 
   height="400" 
   sizes="(max-width: 640px) 375px, (max-width: 768px) 768px, 1024px" 
   srcset="/_ipx/img/insurance/hero.jpg?s=375_400 375w, /_ipx/img/insurance/hero.jpg?s=768_400 768w, /_ipx/img/insurance/hero.jpg?s=1024_400 1024w" 
   class="h-full w-full object-cover"
>

My image is stored inside static/img/insurance directory. I tried to fix the issue by using the render option in nuxt.config like this (but it didn't solve the issue):

render: {
    // Setting up cache for 'static' directory - a year in milliseconds
    static: {
      maxAge: 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 1000,
    },
  },

I also tried the use of keep-alive prop in my layout like this(but it didn't solve the issue): <Nuxt keep-alive />

My question is this one:
Is there any way to set maxAge through nuxt/image configs? If not are there any plans of exposing the ability to do so?

If there is another solution that you are aware please let know (or let me know how i can help with this).

Start by tracing how the nuxt-img component turns the source image into the generated /_ipx URL and how nuxt/image handles its configuration. Compare that behavior with the attempted render.static maxAge setting; done means providing a supported way to configure long-lived caching for optimized images and confirming the resulting cache behavior.