sharp VS jpeg-xl

Compare sharp vs jpeg-xl and see what are their differences.

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)

jpeg-xl

jpeg-xl for the Windows build of ImageMagick (by ImageMagick)
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sharp jpeg-xl
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9.4 7.0
1 day ago 25 days ago
JavaScript C++
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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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 2024-04-21.
  • Next.js and Bunny CDN: Complete Guide to Image Uploading with Server Actions
    4 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2024
    Last thing left is to use our new upload function in our server action. Since I like to upload images in single format and have some more control over them, I will additionally use sharp library. For file name, I'll generate some random string using nanoid:
  • Sharp – fast image conversion in Node.js
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2024
  • Optimizing Image Display with Blur Placeholder and Lazyload
    1 project | dev.to | 7 Mar 2024
    blur is a technique to blur images while reducing the file size surprisingly. blur works by enlarging the pixels of the image, which reduces the details of the image, and the number of colors also decreases, thus saving storage space. Sharp is a popular image processing library in Node.js, and it supports the blur function. After going through the blur function, the image size at this point is only a few KB, which is reasonable for an image placeholder in the article.
  • Organize the mess of your photo folders with Node
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Nov 2023
    sharp
  • Creating Chess Board SVGs, PNGs, and GIFs
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Nov 2023
    For simplicity, I will be generating PNGs with JavaScript/Node and the Sharp image library. Any library that can convert between pixel arrays and image files will make the process quite straightforward.
  • My Journey to Accelerate Load Times in Heavy Frontend
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2023
    There is also a library that Next.js itself uses: sharp. It can be setup as Node.js service. I even played around a little: image-proxy-service
  • Automated Image Compression: A Vite Plugin Using Sharp
    2 projects | dev.to | 17 Aug 2023
    Sharp Documentation: Link
  • Using SVG to create simple sparkline charts
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2023
  • JavaScript Gom Jabbar
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2023
    ESLint does an amazing job in detecting floating promises. I've not had it miss one, ever. When adding this to a project, I've discovered multiple accidental bugs due to a missing "await" keyword--bugs that were extremely subtle and intermittent in many cases.

    The only thing it can't do is determine that you actually did handle the promise later. Which is fine. It's a LINTING RULE, and false positives are the name of the game.

    What's BAD is when you accidentally miss handling a promise at all. It's an invisible error without the linting rule.

    Your other comments...don't even make sense. You're going to build a Lanczos filter by hand? Or you're only going to ... compile ImageMagick to WebAssembly?!, ... an implementation which is tremendously slower (nearly unusably so for large images) than that of Sharp:

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/sharp

    ... which is simply an import away?

    No, what you're doing is called "motivated reasoning." You've concluded that Deno is the best, and you're reinterpreting all of my complaints in convoluted ways to support your predetermined conclusion.

    Standard fanboy behavior. Or troll behavior. I cite Poe's Law as why it's impossible to tell the difference.

  • How does next/image work?
    1 project | /r/nextjs | 1 Jul 2023

jpeg-xl

Posts with mentions or reviews of jpeg-xl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
  • Heyo Everyone! - is there a win or mac software to batch convert imgs to avif?
    3 projects | /r/AV1 | 6 May 2023
    shit i did not know that.. does it also work well with wordpress etc? because the only downfall of avif is bunch of extra steps on a nginx to get it to work right.. Also, u/LITUATUI 's comment, do i just change avif to jpeg-xl? i found something but didnt fully finish reading yet https://github.com/ImageMagick/jpeg-xl
  • FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2023
    One of the most interesting things to me is that JPEG-XL is under an open Patent License, unlike the original JPEG.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL

    Also, Google contributed quite a bit to it's development. As the patent grants show:

    https://github.com/ImageMagick/jpeg-xl/blob/main/PATENTS

    https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/blob/main/PATENTS

    Microsoft seemed to have gotten a patent on part of it's implementation (which Google also tried to get). Not sure if Google will pay to invalidate that patent, but I have a feeling they are more likely to defend AVIF.

    https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/

    Google's control is a little concerning, but I do feel there are bigger fish to fry then choosing between two free formats. Like H.264 and H.265 patents.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sharp and jpeg-xl you can also consider the following projects:

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

jxl-winthumb - A JPEG XL (*.jxl) thumbnail handler for Windows File Explorer.

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

highway - Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch

gm - GraphicsMagick for node

libjxl - JPEG XL image format reference implementation

Next.js - The React Framework

mv-extractor - Extract frames and motion vectors from H.264 and MPEG-4 encoded video.

pica - Resize image in browser with high quality and high speed

jxl.js - JPEG XL decoder in JavaScript using WebAssembly (WASM)

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.

Video-Hub-App - Official repository for Video Hub App