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On top of the memory issue, jimp format support seems limited. No gif support for example.

My personal favourite is node-canvas. It simply brings the HTML5 canvas api to node.

Does node-canvas allow you to select high fidelity algorithms over fast algorithms? A while ago, I wrote a crop tool using browser canvas, and found that the results of a scaling operation were unacceptable, due to its fast downsampling algorithm.

The gory details and a few attempts at higher quality scaling algorithm implementations are on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18922880/html5-canvas-res.... TL;DR: sending the image to the server and having GM scale it is faster and more reliable than your own scaling algorithm in single-threaded browser JS.

I think node canvas is a wrapper over cairo. It lets you set a quality value too. Whether cairo is comparable to GM is something I don't know.

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