pngcrush is an optimizer which main purpose is to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT datastream by trying various compression levels an PNG filter methods
You probably want imagemin-pngcrush
instead.
Install
$ npm install --save pngcrush-bin
Usage
const {execFile} = require('child_process');
const pngcrush = require('pngcrush-bin');
execFile(pngcrush, ['-reduce', '-brute', 'input.png', 'output.png'], err => {
console.log('Image minified');
});
CLI
$ npm install --global pngcrush-bin
$ pngcrush --help
License
MIT © Imagemin