Radar check
What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 23 Oct 2026, 2 days before this check.
Latest release v0.35.5 on 27 Sep 2026.
Public since August 2013, a little over 13 years.
32,796 stars and 1,446 forks.
67 commits and 27 new issues in the last 90 days.
243 contributors. 22 pull requests merged in 90 days.
A security policy says how to report a problem. 5 published security advisories.
How the bars are scored
- Alive. Days since the last code push: a week or less 100, a month 90, three months 70, six months 50, a year 30, eighteen months 15, older 0.
- Releases. Age of the latest GitHub release, on a similar scale; no bar when the project publishes no releases.
- Maturity. Age of the project: eight years 100, five 90, three 70, two 55, one 40, six months 25, younger 10.
- Adoption. Stars on a log scale: 100,000 stars is 100, 10,000 is 80, 1,000 is 60, 100 is 40.
- Activity. Commits in the last 90 days: 300 or more 100, 100 85, 30 65, 10 45, any 25.
- Community. People who have contributed: 100 or more 100, 30 80, 10 60, 5 40, 2 25, one 10.
- Security. A published security policy 80, none 40; published advisories are listed, not scored.
Checked by Repo Radar on 26 Oct 2026 from the repository on GitHub.
In simple English
This library shrinks and changes pictures in your code. It works much faster than older tools. Your website visitors will wait less time for images to load. It uses very little memory on your server. The code is free to use and open source.
What it is
A Node.js module (a package of reusable code) that resizes and converts JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. It relies on a fast C library named libvips to process pixels without slowing down your server.
What it is good for
Solo builders who need to resize user uploads or convert product photos to modern formats for their web applications.
- Processes images significantly faster than traditional tools.
- Supports modern image formats such as WebP and AVIF.
- Handles rotation, cropping, and color profiles correctly.
- Requires Node.js installed on your system.
- Precompiled binaries can sometimes fail on unusual Linux setups.
- Needs some JavaScript knowledge to integrate into a project.
manual image resizing scripts
Express
- ImageMagick/ImageMagick18k stars
A heavier command-line tool for image creation and editing with broad format support.
- iconoir-icons/iconoir4.6k stars
1,671 hand-drawn icons, free for any use, packaged nine different ways.
- libvips/libvips12k stars
Resizes and converts images several times faster and with far less memory than the usual tool.
- ImageMagick/ImageMagick18k stars
Converts, resizes and edits images from one typed command, across more than two hundred formats.
npm install sharp