Building an online image compressor

• photon

  6 2,481 6.7 Rust

  ⚡ Rust/WebAssembly image processing library (by silvia-odwyer)

My first implementation was based on photon_rs, a Rust based web assembly library for image processing. It worked pretty well, but it was slower than OP website. Without digging much it seems logical since photon isn’t optimized for performance.

• squoosh

  266 20,944 5.8 TypeScript

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

  

One of the most complete image compressor out there, squoosh.app by Google, uses web assembly for decoding/encoding images and it works pretty well.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• libvips

  23 9,005 9.2 C

  A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

  

After some research, I found libvips, a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. It is designed to run quickly while using as little as memory as possible.

• denoload

  2 8 8.9 TypeScript

  Modern load testing tool using JavaScript and TypeScript, inspired by k6.

  

www.bulkcompress.photos is just an optimized GUI of the above function. I’ve also added support for resizing and converting images into another format. Finally, to improve performance, I used the worker pool I’ve developed for my load testing tool: https://github.com/denoload/denoload.

• bulkcompress.photos

  1 3 7.6 TypeScript

  Bulk compress photos.

Also, the source code is available here.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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