imagina

Imagina

Imagina is a node.js image library wrapper of ImageMagick. Its features include resize, resizeBatch and convert.

Imagina uses async queue to assure server's resources wont get overloaded, spawning configurable maximum number of ImageMagick processes in parallel. Imagina keeps track of all running and queued resizes / converts, if user tries to resize the same file to the same destination using the same parameters and resolution Imagina will put the second call on hold and will automatically call its callback when the first one finishes. This is particulary useful when Imagina is used inside HTTP requests, avoiding concurrent users spawn lots of ImageMagick processes to do the same job.

Imagina requires knowledge of ImageMagick convert command line options, for more information check out ImageMagick: Command-line Options.

Recently released imagina-middleware - Express middleware to dynamically resize images.

Install

Imagina is available on npmjs. To add Imagina to you application on a Terminal run:

npm install --save imagina

Imagina requires ImageMagick convert command-line tool. It is also recommended to install libjpeg and libpng if you want to deal with these two image file formats.

Mac OS X

The easiest way of installing ImageMagick with PNG and JPEG support is installing brew and running on Terminal:

brew install libpng libjpeg imagemagick

The command above will install ImageMagick convert command-line tool with support to PNG and JPEG image formats.

Examples

resize

var Imagina = require('imagina');

var im = new Imagina();

var src = '/path/to/myfile.png';
var dst = '/another/path/output.png';
var params = '-auto-orient -quality 70'.split(' ');

im.resize(src, dst, '800x600', params, function(err) {
  console.log('image resized');
});

resizeBatch

var Imagina = require('imagina');

var im = new Imagina({ workers: 4 });

// considering src = 'nodejs.png', resolution = '800x600', dst will 
// be: 'nodejs-800x600.jpg'
var filenameModifier = function(src, resolution, params) {
  return src.replace(/(.*)\.png$/, '$1-' + resolution + '.jpg');  
};

var params = '-auto-orient -quality 70'.split(' ');
var resolutions = ['800x500', '320x240', '800x600', '128x128', '1024x768'];

im.resizeBatch('nodejs.png', filenameModifier, resolutions, params, function(err) {
  console.log('resizeBatch finished');
});

convert

var Imagina = require('imagina');

var im = new Imagina();

im.convert('myfile.png', 'myfile.jpg', function(err) {
  console.log('conversion finished');
});

API

Imagina (constructor)

It is recommended to have only one Imagina instance per application instance. Creating only one instance of Imagina you get the following benefits:

• Optimized for the number of available cores on computer;
• Avoid parallel resize or convert of the same file / destination / resolution / params;

Although Imagina identifies the number of available cores on computer and sets it as the maximum number of processes in parallel the user can configure this number adding an object to Imagina constructor arguments like this:

var im = new Imagina({ workers: 3 });

In case it is not informed, Imagina defaults to os.cpus().length.

In addition to workers it is possible to add default params.

var im = new Imagina({ params: '-quality 80'.split(' ') });

resize

As its name says this method must be used to resize one image.

  Imagina.prototype.resize = function(src, dst, resolution, params, cb) {};

• src (string) path to source file;
• dst (string or function) path to destination file. In case a function is defined this function function(src, resolution, params) {} must return the destination path;
• resolution (string) resolution defined by the following format WIDTHxHEIGHT e.g. '800x600';
• params (array, optional) ImageMagick additional params. In case null is defined Imagina will default to params defined on constructor or empty array in case it doesn't exist;
• cb (function, optional) callback to be called when resize finishes;

params has a special behavior on Imagina. Imagina tries to find {RESOLUTION} token in all elements of params array, in case it finds Imagina replaces {RESOLUTION} to the resolution given as argument.

var params = '-quality 80 -crop {RESOLUTION}+0+0'.split(' ');

In the example above, considering resolution '800x600' Imagina will replace parameter '{RESOLUTION}+0+0' by '800x600+0+0', this feature is highly useful on ImageMagick.

If Imagina doesn't find a params element equals to '-resize' it will automatically add two arguments to ImageMagick convert command-line call: ['-resize', '{RESOLUTION}']. That's why you don't need to add '-resize' to params.

var params = '-quality 90 -resize {RESOLUTION}>'.split(' ');
im.resize('myfile.png', 'myfile.jpg', '800x600', params);

resizeBatch

resizeBatch works very similar to resize, there are only two differences:

• dst (function) must be a function, otherwise Imagina will resize src image to the same dst path having an unpredictable behavior.
• resolutions (array) instead of beeing able to resize one image to only one resolution resizeBatch allows you to resize a src image to many resolutions

convert

As its name says this method converts image format using filename extensions.

• src (string) path to source file;
• dst (string) path to destination file;
• cb (function, optional) callback to be called when convert finishes;

im.convert('myfile.png', 'myfile.jpg');

TODO

• Add detailed error feedback;
• Add support to windows computer (at the moment due to use of mv command-line tool it is compatible only with UNIX based OS i.e. MacOSX, Linux, BSD, etc)

Contributors

Would you like to contribute to this library? Don't be shy! Contact me if you are interested on it.

LICENSE

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Eduardo Nunes [e-mail]

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