Generate static images used in modals.

My blog-type test project uses the content and image modules to create pages from markdown. I finally got fully static built-in IPX image generation to work, and two variants of my source images are being generated in dist/_nuxt/images. To display the images, I use $img inside my own component, which also allow the reader to click an image and get a large size third version (2000px) of the image in a modal dialog.

My problem is that images in the modal code are not crawled/processed, and no large-width image variants are generated. I tried adding a dummy with display:none to pull in large-version images into the generating process (which works), but that also causes the browser to always fetch all large-sized images as soon as the page loads.

Is there a way to have 'nuxt generate' create my large-width images, which are only fetched if the user clicks a much smaller thumbnail type image?

Start by tracing the static image generation and crawling entry points in the Nuxt image module, then reproduce the markdown/content project with a thumbnail and a modal-only 2000px image. Done means nuxt generate emits the large image variant without causing the browser to fetch it before the user opens the modal.