I'd say Imagemagick is still the best image software manipulation out there. As essential as ffmpeg is for video manipulation. Very few, if any others (whether standalone or in lib form) come even close.

imo sharp is probably the only thing that comes close. It does not have the full feature set of imagemagick, but it is faster

acqq

I had to search what it is about:

https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/

"The typical use case for this high speed Node.js module is to convert large images in common formats to smaller, web-friendly JPEG, PNG and WebP images of varying dimensions.

Resizing an image is typically 4x-5x faster than using the quickest ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick settings due to its use of libvips."

https://github.com/libvips/libvips

"libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. Compared to similar libraries, libvips runs quickly and uses little memory. libvips is licensed under the LGPL 2.1+."