In a previous PR (#19032), we added a hard error during `next export` if the default Image Optimization API is being used because it requires a server to optimized on demand. The error message offers several different solutions but it didn't consider that by the time someone runs `next export`, they are probably done writing their app.
So if `next export` is a hard requirement, the quickest path forward is to disable Image Optimization API. So this PR adds a new configuration option to `next.config.js`:
```js
module.exports = {
images: {
unoptimized: true
}
}
```
### Update
Upon further discussion, we might want to avoid doing this just for images and instead introduce a top-level config to indicate export is coming and then handle errors or warn for [unsupported features](https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/static-html-export#unsupported-features).
```
module.exports = {
nextExport: true
}
```
Co-authored-by: JJ Kasper <22380829+ijjk@users.noreply.github.com>
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