lovell/sharp
# High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.
$ git clone https://github.com/lovell/sharp.git
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What is lovell/sharp?
Sharp is a Node.js library for processing images like JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and TIFF with a focus on speed and efficiency. It wraps the libvips library to provide fast image resizing, cropping, format conversion, and metadata handling with low memory overhead. Developers use Sharp for server-side image manipulation tasks where performance matters, such as thumbnail generation, image optimization, and responsive image workflows.
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