Sharp Node.js Guide: Resize, Convert, and Compress
Sharp is the fastest image processing library for Node.js. Guide to resizing, converting, compressing, and watermarking with Sharp.
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Sharp for Node.js: Fast Image Processing and Transformation Sharp is the de facto standard for image processing in Node.js. It wraps the libvips library — a C library designed specifically for fast image processing — and exposes it through a clean, chainable JavaScript API. The result is image processing that is 4–5x faster than alternatives like Jimp, with lower memory usage and full support for the modern formats developers actually need. If you're building a web application that needs server-side image processing — thumbnail generation, format conversion, resizing uploaded files — Sharp is almost always the right choice. Installation Sharp includes pre-built binaries for most platforms (macOS, Linux, Windows on x64 and ARM). In most cases you don't need to compile anything. Why Sharp…
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