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

sharp has enjoyed some popularity recently, but it’s the same idea as *Magick bindings.

However, having to install ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick to do a simple image resizing seems too overkill for me

Image resizing is anything but simple. The JPEG format is particularly complex, and there are several ways to scale graphics with results of varying quality, few of them easily implemented. Image processing libraries exist to do this job, so if there’s no other reason why you can’t install them, go for it.