Sharp

Overview

Sharp is the fastest image processing library for Node.js, built on libvips. It handles resizing, format conversion (JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF), compression, cropping, rotation, compositing, and metadata extraction. Use it for thumbnail generation, responsive image variants, web optimization, watermarking, and batch processing pipelines.

Instructions

Step 1: Installation

npm install sharp

Step 2: Resize and Convert

// resize.js — Resize images and convert between formats
import sharp from 'sharp'