Node.js: image resizing without ImageMagick

Question

I\'m developing a web app on Node.js (+ express 4) where users can set their profile image by uploading it to the server. We already limit the file mimetype and max filesize

Answer 1

I have recently started developing an image processing module for NodeJS without any runtime dependencies (read why). It's still at early stages, but already usable.

What you are asking for would be done as follows:

image.resize(200, 200, function(err, image){
    // encode resized image to jpeg and get a Buffer object
    image.toBuffer('jpg', function(err, buffer){
        // save buffer to disk / send over network / etc.
    });
});

More info at the module's Github repo.