As web developers, we are often required to create applications that are responsive as well as media-rich. Having such requirements in place means that we need to work with image breakpoints, as well as media queries since we want to provide the best experience to the end users. Adding to the list of requirements we may need to use a front-end framework such as Angular which is great for creating SPAs and other application types.

In this article, we’ll take a look at image breakpoints, their use-cases and throughout a hands-on example; we’ll implement them in an Angular application using Angular’s own BreakPoint Observer. While using this approach, we’ll also highlight why this popular framework helps us work with the aforementioned techniques in a seamless way.

In the era of responsive layouts (where we capture breakpoints based on the viewport size and based on the breakpoint we change the layout of the page), we also need to make sure that images can be displayed with the right dimensions — even after a layout change. Selecting the right image is quite challenging for modern responsive websites.