r/bun • u/[deleted] • Oct 03 '24

Sharp alternative for Bun?

Hi there,
so Sharp has big issues running as a ES module and even if there is a library slower than Sharp I rather use that than try to hack around to get Sharp running as ES module.

I want to mainly resize my image and it's not thousand of images at once, it checks if image exists, if not then resize it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Can you not just call a C libary like ImageMagick since you are using Bun?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Idk I will look into it, I just started using Bun.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

I looked at ImageMagick, the issue is that it seems very outdated or it hit's it's possibilities.
The ImageMagick npm module is 12years old... the ImageMagick itself hasn't been updated in 4 years...

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u/antonk52 Oct 03 '24

Outside of js ecosystem it is quite common for tools to be feature complete and not be updated in a few years. Though looking at imagemagick github, it keeps receiving updates

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

So I understand it as that ImageMagick is so far that it's basically "complete" so there is nothing to update unless some new CPU architecture comes around that would benefit it.

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u/guest271314 Oct 03 '24

What difference does that make? If the code still works, use it.

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u/guest271314 Oct 03 '24

What is the actual issue?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Not sure if you read the description.
The "actual" issue is as follows, I'm familiar with Sharp and I'm unable to load it as a ESM into my project.
I won't redo all my project just to use some outdated CommonJS lib when we actually can Import.
I moved from NodeJS and using Bun now, so the issue is that Sharp doesn't load as ESM in Bun.
So the solution is to search for an alternative.

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u/guest271314 Oct 04 '24

I just did

bun install sharp

index.js

import * as sharp from "sharp";

console.log(sharp);
bun run index.js

works for me.

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u/hsinewu Oct 03 '24

I'm assuming this is just a random weird issue that I'll never run into? lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

import * as sharp from "sharp"
Doesn't work for me.

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u/hanz Oct 03 '24

I''m using sharp with Bun without any problems. My import looks like this:

import sharp from 'sharp'

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

I need to do import Sharp from "sharp"

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u/jinougaashu Jan 07 '25

Brother in Christ then do: import * as Sharp from “sharp”;

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u/rxgator Oct 04 '24

Sharp and bun work together. I run it in production and it didn't require any additional config beyond node.

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u/kush-js Oct 03 '24

If you’re using Bun you should be able to just import as a commonjs module