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High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2014-05-22 · latest 2026-06-01

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  1. …to build native dependencies. sharp for example needs to build libvips on the system [0] to work 0: https://github.com/lovell/sharp/blob/main/install/build.js
    comment by tom1337 · 2026-06-01 · in Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
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    Sharp: High performance Node.js image processing/optimization
    story by nateb2022 · 2025-12-16 · 10 comments
  3. …is probably the canonical thread about libvips and memory fragmentation, and the funniest graph: https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/955#issuecomment-5458... (that specific graph is for switching from glib to the musl memory allocator,…
    comment by jcupitt · 2025-06-15 · in Jemalloc Postmortem
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    Sharp – fast image conversion in Node.js
    story by bryanrasmussen · 2024-03-26 · 0 comments
  5. …a template and render it to PNG with Sharp [2]. [1]: https://hntrends.net/api/og?word=twitter [2]: https://github.com/lovell/sharp
    comment by bencevans · 2023-07-10 · in Easy SVG sparklines
  6. It would be awesome if sharp ( https://github.com/lovell/sharp ) would implement this algorithm
    comment by ACAVJW4H · 2021-04-17 · in Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
  7. Sharp lib is veeeerrryyy close to AVIF support: https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/2289 (you can compile a version to use for yourself, it's just not production stable yet).
    comment by davidmurdoch · 2020-11-09 · in I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript
  8. …in the metadata. I ended up using sharp [1] since it was so easy to integrate into my workflow. 1. https://github.com/lovell/sharp
    comment by hansenzhang · 2020-05-15 · in Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
  9. For images, you'd want to use a more performant 'sharp'. https://github.com/lovell/sharp Benchmark https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/en/stable/performance/
    comment by h1d · 2019-08-06 · in FFmpeg 4.2
  10. …You could easily set up a simple node.js program that uses fs.watcher to watch for new files, and https://github.com/lovell/sharp to process the two most recent images and see if the pixels are identical. If you need to package this into a…
    comment by sam0x17 · 2018-07-26 · in Ask: send email if two images are the same
  11. Sharp for node.js has proven to be powerful, flexible and fast for my needs: https://github.com/lovell/sharp/
    comment by rawrmaan · 2017-06-22 · in Ask HN: Best Self-Hosted, Server-Side Image Optimization Tools?
  12. …(native C library) correctly. I built and deployed my image thumbnailer on a CentOS VM. [1]: https://github.com/lovell/sharp
    comment by rebolyte · 2017-06-22 · in Ask HN: How was your experience with AWS Lambda in production?
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    Fast Node.js image resizer
    story by valentinvieriu · 2017-05-16 · 0 comments
  14. …instance type in an autoscaling group on Google Cloud. Any feedback is greatly appreciated! [1] https://github.com/lovell/sharp
    comment by hoahluke · 2017-02-06 · in Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service
  15. …for Node.js. [1] https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips [2] https://github.com/nthtran/imgop [3] https://github.com/lovell/sharp
    comment by nthtran · 2015-03-22 · in Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
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    The fastest Node.js module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images
    story by lukashed · 2014-05-23 · 0 comments
  17. Has anyone tried sharp for node? Looks quite promising. https://github.com/lovell/sharp
    comment by willyyr · 2014-05-22 · in Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images