sharp alternative?

[coolzilj]

Is it possible to replace sharp with some lightweight image processing library?
It's just painful when updating sharp, it took me half an hour to install and compile all the dependencies.

==> Upgrading 1 outdated package, with result:
homebrew/science/vips 8.1.1
==> Upgrading homebrew/science/vips
==> Installing dependencies for homebrew/science/vips: pkg-config, libpng, glib, orc, cairo, gobject-introspection, icu4c, harfbuzz, pango, pygobject3, sqlite, python, graphicsmagick,
==> Installing homebrew/science/vips dependency: pkg-config

[bruno12mota]

Can be an option at least for dev environment. Do you know some?

[magalhas]

It it's as good as sharp but lighter it should be an option for production as well.

[coolzilj]

I found these days ago, but have never used them.

• lwip written in C/C++, no external runtime dependencies
• jimp written in JavaScript, with zero external or native dependencies.

[coolzilj]

I found the benchmark results.
http://sharp.dimens.io/en/stable/performance/
It seems like sharp is 20x faster than others, option for dev would be great.

[bruno12mota]

Nice @coolzilj! Yes, having an option for dev only seems ideal

[lovell]

Hello, for anyone interested in the dependency-less install of sharp on OS X, please subscribe to lovell/sharp#312

[rsilvestre]

A good idea could be to use directly cloudinary

[lovell]

Experimental support for a runtime dependency-free version of sharp on OS X is now available to test - please see lovell/sharp#312 (comment)

[dzcpy]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/images
This one seems to be a nice lightweight alternative of sharp. It has prebult binaries for many platforms so in most cases there's no need to compile anything.

[lovell]

v0.16.0 of sharp no longer requires the installation of the libvips dependency on OS X. This means all Windows (x64), Linux (x64, ARM) and now OS X users are dependency-less at runtime.

The remaining work to also remove the compilation step via the use of node-pre-gyp is being tracked at lovell/sharp#186.

[lovell]

Quick follow up for issues linked to lovell/sharp#186 - prebuilt sharp.node binaries are now available in v0.20.0.