looking for an imagemagick nodejs npm?

node.js imagemagick node-imagemagick
mkoryak picture mkoryak · Dec 27, 2012 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

I have bene using node-imagemagick for a few days now and have come to realize that it has bugs.

There are about 100 forks of it, some of which fix some of the issues i have come across, but it is hard to figure out which fork i should use.

Answer

Pickels picture Pickels · Dec 27, 2012

I once was in your position and after getting really frustrated with modules that had bugs or weird APIs I started using imagemagic directly by spawning a child process. Node.js is pretty good at this so it's actually not that hard.

var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
var args = ['-ping', 'tree.gif' ];
var composite = spawn('identify', args);

It's also great because you can just use the imagemagic documentation.

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