sharp

Homepage

https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/

What is it?

Sharp is a high-performance library for image transformation in Node.js.

What do we use it for?

Resizing user image uploads when needed. We use sharp inside AWS Lambda cloud functions; Sharp uses the extremely fast libvips library under the hood, making it much faster than most other image transformation libraries which don't use libvips. This cuts the time needed to finish submitting an artwork.