Resize and crop image and keeping aspect ratio NodeJS & gm

Question

I\'ve been trying to create some thumbnails using the gm package from NodeJS, but I\'m out of lucky. I need to resize images bigger than 600x600 (could be any w

Answer 1

Try with Jimp package for Node.js https://www.npmjs.com/package/jimp. Which is better than gm I think. It does not require any dependencies. I tried to use gm before but I was not able to install dependencies for gm. End up I used jimp and everything worked fine.

   Jimp.read('lenna.png', (err, lenna) => {
      if (err) throw err;
      lenna
        .resize(256, 256) // resize
        .write('lena-small-bw.jpg'); // save
    });