JavaScript Image Manipulation Program
The "JavaScript Image Manipulation Program" :-)
An image processing library for Node written entirely in JavaScript, with zero native dependencies.
The default jimp configuration.
Supported types:
@jimp/jpeg@jimp/png@jimp/bmp@jimp/tiff@jimp/gifnpm install --save jimp
const { Jimp } = require("jimp");
// open a file called "lenna.png"
const image = await Jimp.read("test.png");
image.resize(256, 256); // resize
await image.write("test-small.jpg"); // save
Sharp is a high-performance Node.js image processing library that uses the libvips library. It is known for its speed and efficiency, especially for large images and batch processing. Compared to Jimp, Sharp is faster but requires native dependencies.
GraphicsMagick for Node.js (gm) is a wrapper for the GraphicsMagick image processing utility. It provides a wide range of image manipulation capabilities and is suitable for complex tasks. Unlike Jimp, gm relies on the GraphicsMagick or ImageMagick native libraries.
Image-js is a JavaScript library for image manipulation on Node.js and the browser. It provides similar functionalities to Jimp, with a focus on scientific and technical image processing. It is also written in pure JavaScript with no native dependencies.
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An image processing library written entirely in JavaScript.
The npm package jimp receives a total of 1,413,305 weekly downloads. As such, jimp popularity was classified as popular.
We found that jimp demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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