Sharp: Provide a "cookbook" of common image processing recipes

[kennetpostigo]

I found this library after googling for ten minutes, I'm wondering if this resizes images and also compresses them. Does it do both? If not do you have any recommendations for libraries that do compression for images well?

[lovell]

Hello, what do you mean by "compresses"? This module can output a number of compressed formats such as JPEG, PNG etc. but I suspect you might mean more than that.

[kennetpostigo]

"compress" as in the file size of a 3mb image to a smaller size like 100kb. Sorry for the confusion.

[lovell]

If you're referring to image optimisation, then there are few features available to you.

http://sharp.dimens.io/en/stable/#optimal

JPEG: http://sharp.dimens.io/en/stable/api-output/#jpeg
PNG: http://sharp.dimens.io/en/stable/api-output/#png

[kennetpostigo]

Thank you @lovell, going through the docs, is there an examples section?

[lovell]

There are a few examples in the API docs, but not a specific examples section, so we should add one!

Any thoughts on what other topics people might to have examples for, beyond image optimisation?

[kennetpostigo]

You would probably want examples for most of the API surface. Examples folder in the directory would help alot, allows people to clone the repo and run examples live to play with the library.

[lovell]

HyperDev supports native modules so would make an excellent host for "living" code examples.

[lovell]

I've created a "cookbook" label to tag possible "recipes".

[vsc-github]

@lovell Hey, I am unable to find quality/compressionLevel articles in the API docs. The links you've posted above aren't pointing to them anymore. Are they taken out of sharp or am I missing something here? Could you please help me find those, I'm looking to adjust the quality of images to reduce their size. Thanks!

[lovell]

@vsc-github I've updated my comment.