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6<a href=/index.xml target=_blank>RSS</a></nav></header><main><div><h1>Create placeholder images with sharp Node.js image processing library</h1><p>Mar 27, 2020<div><p>I have been searching for a solution to pre-generate some placeholder images for
7image server I needed to develop that resizes images on S3. I though this would
8be a 15min job and quickly found out how very mistaken I was.<p>Even though Node.js is not really the best way to do this kind of things (surely
9something written in C or Rust or even Golang would be the correct way to do
10this but we didn't need the speed in our case) I found an excellent library
11<a href=https://github.com/lovell/sharp>sharp - High performance Node.js image
12processing</a>.<p>Getting things running was a breeze.<h2 id=fetch-image-from-s3-and-save-resized>Fetch image from S3 and save resized</h2><pre tabindex=0 style=background-color:#fff><code><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#00f>const</span> sharp = require(<span style=color:#a31515>&#39;sharp&#39;</span>);
13</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#00f>const</span> aws = require(<span style=color:#a31515>&#39;aws-sdk&#39;</span>);
14</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>
15</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#00f>const</span> x,y = 100;
16</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#00f>const</span> s3 = <span style=color:#00f>new</span> aws.S3({});
17</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>
18</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>aws.config.update({
19</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> secretAccessKey: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;secretAccessKey&#39;</span>,
20</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> accessKeyId: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;accessKeyId&#39;</span>,
21</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> region: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;region&#39;</span>
22</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>});
23</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>
24</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#00f>const</span> originalImage = <span style=color:#00f>await</span> s3.getObject({
25</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> Bucket: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;some-bucket-name&#39;</span>,
26</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> Key: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;image.jpg&#39;</span>,
27</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>}).promise();
28</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>
29</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#00f>const</span> resizedImage = <span style=color:#00f>await</span> sharp(originalImage.Body)
30</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> .resize(x, y)
31</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> .jpeg({ progressive: <span style=color:#00f>true</span> })
32</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> .toBuffer();
33</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>
34</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>s3.putObject({
35</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> Bucket: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;some-bucket-name&#39;</span>,
36</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> Key: <span style=color:#a31515>`optimized/</span><span style=color:#a31515>${</span>x<span style=color:#a31515>}</span><span style=color:#a31515>x</span><span style=color:#a31515>${</span>y<span style=color:#a31515>}</span><span style=color:#a31515>/image.jpg`</span>,
37</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> Body: resizedImage,
38</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> ContentType: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;image/jpeg&#39;</span>,
39</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> ACL: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;public-read&#39;</span>
40</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>}).promise();
41</span></span></code></pre><p>All this code was wrapped inside a web service with some additional security
42checks and defensive coding to detect if key is missing on S3.<p>And at that point I needed to return placeholder images as a response in case
43key is missing or x,y are not allowed by the server etc. I could have created
44PNG in Gimp and just serve them but I wanted to respect aspect ratio and I
45didn't want to return some mangled images.<blockquote><p>Main problem with finding a clean solution I could copy and paste and change a
46bit was a task. API is changing constantly and there weren't clear examples or
47I was unable to find them.</blockquote><h2 id=generating-placeholder-images-using-svg>Generating placeholder images using SVG</h2><p>What I ended up was using SVG to generate text and created image with sharp and
48used composition to combine both layers. Response returned by this function is a
49buffer you can use to either upload to S3 or save to local file.<pre tabindex=0 style=background-color:#fff><code><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#00f>const</span> generatePlaceholderImageWithText = <span style=color:#00f>async</span> (width, height, message) =&gt; {
50</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> <span style=color:#00f>const</span> overlay = <span style=color:#a31515>`&lt;svg width=&#34;</span><span style=color:#a31515>${</span>width - 20<span style=color:#a31515>}</span><span style=color:#a31515>&#34; height=&#34;</span><span style=color:#a31515>${</span>height - 20<span style=color:#a31515>}</span><span style=color:#a31515>&#34;&gt;
51</span></span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#a31515> &lt;text x=&#34;50%&#34; y=&#34;50%&#34; font-family=&#34;sans-serif&#34; font-size=&#34;16&#34; text-anchor=&#34;middle&#34;&gt;</span><span style=color:#a31515>${</span>message<span style=color:#a31515>}</span><span style=color:#a31515>&lt;/text&gt;
52</span></span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#a31515> &lt;/svg&gt;`</span>;
53</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>
54</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> <span style=color:#00f>return</span> <span style=color:#00f>await</span> sharp({
55</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> create: {
56</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> width: width,
57</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> height: height,
58</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> channels: 4,
59</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> background: { r: 230, g: 230, b: 230, alpha: 1 }
60</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> }
61</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> })
62</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> .composite([{
63</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> input: Buffer.from(overlay),
64</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> gravity: <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;center&#39;</span>,
65</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> }])
66</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> .jpeg()
67</span></span><span style=display:flex><span> .toBuffer();
68</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>}
69</span></span></code></pre><p>That is about it. Nothing more to it. You can change the color of the image by
70changing <code>background</code> and if you want to change text styling you can adapt SVG
71to your needs.<blockquote><p>Also be careful about the length of the text. This function positions text at
72the center and adds <code>20px</code> padding on all sides. If text is longer than the
73image it will get cut.</blockquote></div></div></main><footer><hr><div><h3>Want to comment or have something to add?</h3>You can write me an email at
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