compressorjs-next

Compressor.js Next

Modernized, optimized, and maintained fork of Fengyuan Chen’s Compressor.js.

A JavaScript image compressor and converter. Uses the browser’s native HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob() method to do the compression work, which means it is lossy compression, asynchronous, and has different compression effects in different browsers. Generally use this to precompress an image on the client side before uploading it.

Table of contents

• Migrating from Compressor.js
• Main files
• Getting started
• Options
• Methods
• Browser support
• Contributing
• Versioning
• License

Migrating from Compressor.js

Change the package name from compressorjs to compressorjs-next in your package.json and imports (import Compressor from 'compressorjs-next').

The API is otherwise the same, with these exceptions (as of 1.1.0—follow the changelog from there):

• ESM is now the default module format (CommonJS is still supported)
• The noConflict() method has been removed
• The default for convertTypes has changed from ['image/png'] to []
• Internet Explorer is no longer supported

Main files

dist/
├── compressor.js        (UMD)
├── compressor.min.js    (UMD, compressed)
├── compressor.esm.js    (ES Module, default)
└── compressor.common.js (CommonJS)

Getting started

Install

npm i compressorjs-next

Usage

Syntax

new Compressor(file[, options])

file

• Type: File or Blob

The target image file for compressing.

options

• Type: Object
• Optional

The options for compressing. Check out the available options.

Example

<input type="file" id="file" accept="image/*">

import axios from 'axios';
import Compressor from 'compressorjs-next';

document.getElementById('file').addEventListener('change', (e) => {
  const file = e.target.files[0];

  if (!file) {
    return;
  }

  new Compressor(file, {
    quality: 0.6,

    // The compression process is asynchronous,
    // which means you have to access the `result` in the `success` hook function.
    success(result) {
      const formData = new FormData();

      // The third parameter is required for server
      formData.append('file', result, result.name);

      // Send the compressed image file to server with XMLHttpRequest.
      axios.post('/path/to/upload', formData).then(() => {
        console.log('Upload success');
      });
    },
    error(err) {
      console.log(err.message);
    },
  });

});

Options

You may set compressor options with new Compressor(file, options). If you want to change the global default options, You may use Compressor.setDefaults(options).

strict

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Indicates whether to output the original image instead of the compressed one when the size of the compressed image is greater than the original one’s, except the following cases:

• The retainExif option is set to true.
• The mimeType option is set and its value is different from the mime type of the image.
• The width option is set and its value is greater than the natural width of the image.
• The height option is set and its value is greater than the natural height of the image.
• The minWidth option is set and its value is greater than the natural width of the image.
• The minHeight option is set and its value is greater than the natural height of the image.
• The maxWidth option is set and its value is less than the natural width of the image.
• The maxHeight option is set and its value is less than the natural height of the image.

checkOrientation

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Indicates whether to read the image’s Exif Orientation value (JPEG image only), and then rotate or flip the image automatically with the value.

Notes:

• Don’t trust this all the time as some JPEG images have incorrect (not standard) Orientation values.
• If the size of the target image is too large (e.g., greater than 10 MB), you should disable this option to avoid an out-of-memory crash.
• The image’s Exif information will be removed after compressed, so if you need the Exif information, you may need to upload the original image as well.

retainExif

• Type: boolean
• Default: false

Indicates whether to retain the image’s Exif information after compressed.

maxWidth

• Type: number
• Default: Infinity

The max width of the output image. The value should be greater than 0.

Avoid getting a blank output image, you might need to set the maxWidth and maxHeight options to limited numbers, because of the size limits of a canvas element, recommend to use 4096 or lesser.

maxHeight

• Type: number
• Default: Infinity

The max height of the output image. The value should be greater than 0.

minWidth

• Type: number
• Default: 0

The min width of the output image. The value should be greater than 0 and should not be greater than the maxWidth.

minHeight

• Type: number
• Default: 0

The min height of the output image. The value should be greater than 0 and should not be greater than the maxHeight.

width

• Type: number
• Default: undefined

The width of the output image. If not specified, the natural width of the original image will be used, or if the height option is set, the width will be computed automatically by the natural aspect ratio.

height

• Type: number
• Default: undefined

The height of the output image. If not specified, the natural height of the original image will be used, or if the width option is set, the height will be computed automatically by the natural aspect ratio.

resize

• Type: string
• Default: "none"
• Options: "none", "contain", and "cover"

Sets how the size of the image should be resized to the container specified by the width and height options.

Note: This option only available when both the width and height options are specified.

quality

• Type: number
• Default: 0.8

The quality of the output image. It must be a number between 0 and 1. If this argument is anything else, the default values 0.92 and 0.80 are used for image/jpeg and image/webp respectively. Other arguments are ignored. Be careful to use 1 as it may make the size of the output image become larger.

Note: This option only available for image/jpeg and image/webp images.

Check out the documentation of the HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob() method for more detail.

Examples:

quality	Input size	Output size	Compression ratio	Description
0	2.12 MB	114.61 KB	94.72%	—
0.2	2.12 MB	349.57 KB	83.90%	—
0.4	2.12 MB	517.10 KB	76.18%	—
0.6	2.12 MB	694.99 KB	67.99%	Recommend
0.8	2.12 MB	1.14 MB	46.41%	Recommend
1	2.12 MB	2.12 MB	0%	Not recommend
NaN	2.12 MB	2.01 MB	5.02%	—

mimeType

• Type: string
• Default: 'auto'
• Options: "auto", "image/png", "image/jpeg", and "image/webp"

The MIME type of the output image. By default, the original MIME type of the source image file will be used.

Note: Safari does not support mimeType conversion to "image/webp". For more details, see the browser compatibility of the HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob() method.

convertTypes

• Type: Array or string (multiple types should be separated by commas)
• Default: []
• Examples:
  • ["image/png", "image/webp"]
  • "image/png,image/webp"

Files whose file type is included in this list and whose file size exceeds the convertSize value will be converted to JPEG.

For image file type support, see the Image file type and format guide.

convertSize

• Type: number
• Default: 5000000 (5 MB)

Files whose file type is included in the convertTypes list and whose file size exceeds this value will be converted to JPEG. Can also be disabled through the value Infinity.

Examples:

convertSize	Input size (type)	Output size (type)	Compression ratio
5 MB	1.87 MB (PNG)	1.87 MB (PNG)	0%
5 MB	5.66 MB (PNG)	450.24 KB (JPEG)	92.23%
5 MB	9.74 MB (PNG)	883.89 KB (JPEG)	91.14%

beforeDraw(context, canvas)

• Type: Function
• Default: null
• Parameters:
  • context: The 2d rendering context of the canvas.
  • canvas: The canvas for compression.

The hook function to execute before drawing the image into the canvas for compression.

new Compressor(file, {
  beforeDraw(context, canvas) {
    context.fillStyle = '#fff';
    context.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
    context.filter = 'grayscale(100%)';
  },
});

drew(context, canvas)

• Type: Function
• Default: null
• Parameters:
  • context: The 2d rendering context of the canvas.
  • canvas: The canvas for compression.

The hook function to execute after drawing the image into the canvas for compression.

new Compressor(file, {
  drew(context, canvas) {
    context.fillStyle = '#fff';
    context.font = '2rem serif';
    context.fillText('watermark', 20, canvas.height - 20);
  },
});

success(result)

• Type: Function
• Default: null
• Parameters:
  • result: The compressed image (a File (read only) or Blob object).

The hook function to execute when successful to compress the image.

error(err)

• Type: Function
• Default: null
• Parameters:
  • err: The compression error (an Error object).

The hook function executes when fails to compress the image.

Methods

abort()

Abort the compression process.

const compressor = new Compressor(file);

// Do something…
compressor.abort();

Browser support

Supports browserslist defaults.

Note: When the browser’s canvas produces unreliable pixel data—as with Firefox’s privacy.resistFingerprinting setting or privacy-focused forks like LibreWolf—, compression, resizing, and format conversion are not possible. In this case, the library falls back to returning the original image with EXIF data stripped (JPEG) or unchanged (other formats).