Use sharp on Tauri

[gabrielmar]

I can't use the sharp library on Tauri.

sharp uses libvips under the hood, which downloads a .node binary file during installation for each system.

What can I do to use this library?

[FabianLars]

You could have a nodejs sidecar https://v2.tauri.app/learn/sidecar-nodejs/

If you're also okay with using rust you could check if image-rs or some other crate would work for you.

[gabrielmar]

How would I go about adding an entire node library using sidecar?

I've used image-rs before, but it's very slow and doesn't have good support for formats other than PNG.
I replaced it with photon and the code's performance improved by 2.3x.
But I still think it's possible to improve this timing with libvips.

Unfortunately libvips bindings for rust are broken on Windows.

[FabianLars]

How would I go about adding an entire node library using sidecar?

pkg which we use in the guide to create a single exe from a nodejs projects supports npm dependencies as well afaik (as long as you have a bundler that does?)

Unfortunately libvips bindings for rust are broken on Windows.

sadge, that crate would have been the next thing i'd propose