pica VS sharp

Compare pica vs sharp and see what are their differences.

pica

Resize image in browser with high quality and high speed (by nodeca)

sharp

High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library. (by lovell)
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pica sharp
11 96
3,606 27,892
2.1% -
0.0 9.4
10 months ago 7 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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pica

Posts with mentions or reviews of pica. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-13.
  • Generate thumbhash at edge for tiny progressive images
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Apr 2023
    Then pica to resize it and a simple function I wrote to crop it:
  • Can I specify the camera resolution when prompting the user to upload a selfie using JS?
    1 project | /r/webdev | 8 Nov 2022
    Take a look at pica (Resize images in browser without pixelation and reasonably fast. Autoselect the best of available technologies: webworkers, webassembly, createImageBitmap, pure JS.)
  • Client side image processing? Package like 'Sharp' but for frontend webdev?
    1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 14 Oct 2022
    You can use the pica library for browser resizing - https://www.npmjs.com/package/pica - it's a really great tool. It can also reduce upload size for large images. And some library like this for merging images - https://www.npmjs.com/package/merge-images.
  • Cool & useful JavaScript libraries
    28 projects | dev.to | 11 Jul 2022
    Pica : resize image in browser with high quality and high speed.
  • I made an online image resizer tool
    1 project | /r/reactjs | 19 Jun 2022
  • How to include APIs in TamperMonkey?
    1 project | /r/GreaseMonkey | 8 Jan 2022
    I want to use this in my TamperMonkey script: https://github.com/nodeca/pica
  • Resizing and Compressing Photos Before Upload to Django
    2 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 27 Dec 2021
    this sounds promising, though I've never used it before https://github.com/nodeca/pica
  • Test Ishan
    1 project | dev.to | 9 Nov 2021
    Sample text here... Syntax highlighting js var foo = function (bar) { return bar++; }; console.log(foo(5)); ## Tables | Option | Description | | ------ | ----------- | | data | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. | | engine | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. | | ext | extension to be used for dest files. | Right aligned columns | Option | Description | | ------:| -----------:| | data | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. | | engine | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. | | ext | extension to be used for dest files. | ## Links link text link with title Autoconverted link https://github.com/nodeca/pica (enable linkify to see) ## Images Like links, Images also have a footnote style syntax ![Alt text][id] With a reference later in the document defining the URL location: [id]: https://octodex.github.com/images/dojocat.jpg "The Dojocat" ## Plugins The killer feature of markdown-it is very effective support of syntax plugins. ### Emojies > Classic markup: 😉 :crush: 😢 :tear: 😆 😋 > > Shortcuts (emoticons): :-) :-( 8-) ;) see how to change output with twemoji. ### Subscript / Superscript - 19^th^ - H~2~O ### ++Inserted text++ ### ==Marked text== ### Footnotes Footnote 1 link[^first]. Footnote 2 link[^second]. Inline footnote^[Text of inline footnote] definition. Duplicated footnote reference[^second]. [^first]: Footnote can have markup and multiple paragraphs. [^second]: Footnote text. ### Definition lists Term 1 : Definition 1 with lazy continuation. Term 2 with inline markup : Definition 2 { some code, part of Definition 2 } Third paragraph of definition 2. Compact style: Term 1 ~ Definition 1 Term 2 ~ Definition 2a ~ Definition 2b ### Abbreviations This is HTML abbreviation example. It converts "HTML", but keep intact partial entries like "xxxHTMLyyy" and so on. [HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language ### Custom containers ::: warning *here be dragons :::
  • Stop sending uncompressed images to servers for resizing (slow!)
    2 projects | /r/javascript | 20 Oct 2021
    this is a sort of similar one https://github.com/nodeca/pica (i found it hard to use with create-react-app tho had to skip over its use of webworkers, tho that would be cool to use, code to use pica here https://github.com/cmdcolin/aws\_serverless\_photo\_gallery/blob/master/frontend/src/App.tsx#L20-L25)
  • Building Your Own Blog with Nuxt Content and Tailwind
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2021
    link with title

sharp

Posts with mentions or reviews of sharp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pica and sharp you can also consider the following projects:

jimp - An image processing library written entirely in JavaScript for Node, with zero external or native dependencies.

cropper

squoosh - Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser.

lena.js - :woman: Library for image processing

gm - GraphicsMagick for node

fastimage - A module that finds the size and type of an image by fetching and reading as little data as needed.

Next.js - The React Framework

probe-image-size - Get image size without full download. Supported image types: JPG, GIF, PNG, WebP, BMP, TIFF, SVG, PSD, ICO.

sveltekit-image-plugin - SvelteKit demo code for using vite-imagetools to add cached, responsive, Next-Gen images to a SvelteKit site with no cumulative layout shift.

Korkut - Quick and simple image processing at the command line. :hammer:

imagemin - [Unmaintained] Minify images seamlessly