10 alternatives to sharp
lovell/sharp — High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library. (32,797 stars, Apache-2.0, files, analytics, infra).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 29 licence-cleared components from lovell/sharp itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cshum/imagor | 4.9 | Apache-2.0 | 4,050 |
| 2 | imgproxy/imgproxy | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 11,154 |
| 3 | aldor007/mort | 4.7 | MIT | 523 |
| 4 | h2non/imaginary | 4.6 | MIT | 6,087 |
| 5 | mrdoob/three.js | 7.9 | MIT | 116,728 |
| 6 | intervention/image | 6.1 | MIT | 14,377 |
| 7 | ben-manes/caffeine | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 17,911 |
| 8 | dgraph-io/ristretto | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 7,004 |
| 9 | addyosmani/squish | 4.6 | MIT | 1,046 |
| 10 | maypok86/otter | 4.5 | Apache-2.0 | 2,704 |
The alternatives in detail
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Fast, secure image processing server and Go library, using libvipsscore 4.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 4,050 stars · 64 components · search them
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Fast and secure standalone server for resizing, processing, and converting images on the flyscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 11,154 stars · 251 components · search them
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Storage and image processing server written in Goscore 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 523 stars · 52 components · search them
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Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processingscore 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 6,087 stars · 18 components · search them
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JavaScript 3D Library.score 7.9/10 · MIT permissive · 116,728 stars · 845 components · search them
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PHP Image Processingscore 6.1/10 · MIT permissive · 14,377 stars · 319 components · search them
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A high performance caching library for Javascore 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 17,911 stars · 454 components · search them
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A high performance memory-bound Go cachescore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 7,004 stars · 39 components · search them
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Squish - Batch Browser-based Image Compressionscore 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 1,046 stars · 14 components · search them
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A high performance caching library for Goscore 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,704 stars · 88 components · search them
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