sharp VS pica

Compare sharp vs pica 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)

pica

Resize image in browser with high quality and high speed (by nodeca)
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sharp pica
97 11
27,943 3,612
- 2.4%
9.4 0.0
2 days ago 10 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 MIT 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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

cropper

gm - GraphicsMagick for node

lena.js - :woman: Library for image processing

Next.js - The React Framework

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

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.

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

imagemin - [Unmaintained] Minify images seamlessly

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