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

Canvas is 2.3 times faster than ImageMagic.

You can try to compare Node.js modules for images manipulation - https://github.com/ivanoff/images-manipulation-performance

author's results:
 sharp.js : 9.501 img/sec; minFreeMem: 929Mb
 canvas.js : 8.246 img/sec; minFreeMem: 578Mb
 gm.js : 4.433 img/sec; minFreeMem: 791Mb
 gm-imagemagic.js : 3.654 img/sec; minFreeMem: 804Mb
 lwip.js : 1.203 img/sec; minFreeMem: 54Mb
 jimp.js : 0.445 img/sec; minFreeMem: 82Mb