🖼️ IPX

High performance, secure and easy to use image proxy based on sharp and libvips.

Usage

Quick Start

You can use ipx command to start server using:

$ npx ipx

The default server directory is the current working directory.

Programatic Usage

You can use IPX as a Connect/Express middleware or directly use ipx api.

import { createIPX, createIPXMiddleware } from "ipx";

const ipx = createIPX(/* options */);
const app = express();
app.use("/image", createIPXMiddleware(ipx));

Examples

Get original image:

/_/static/buffalo.png

Change format to webp and keep other things same as source:

/f_webp/static/buffalo.png

Keep original format (png) and set width to 200:

/w_200/static/buffalo.png

Resize to 200x200px using embed method and change format to webp:

/embed,f_webp,s_200x200/static/buffalo.png

Modifiers

Property	Docs	Example	Comments
width / w	Docs	/width_200/buffalo.png
height / h	Docs	/height_200/buffalo.png
resize / s	Docs	/s_200x200/buffalo.png
fit	Docs	/s_200x200,fit_outside/buffalo.png	Sets fit option for resize.
position / pos	Docs	/s_200x200,pos_top/buffalo.png	Sets position option for resize.
trim	Docs	/trim_100/buffalo.png
extend	Docs	/extend_{top}_{right}_{bottom}_{left}/buffalo.png	Extend / pad / extrude one or more edges of the image with either the provided background colour or pixels derived from the image.
extract	Docs	/extract_{left}_{top}_{width}_{height}/buffalo.png	Extract/crop a region of the image.
format / f	Docs	/format_webp/buffalo.png	Supported format: jpg, jpeg, png, webp, avif, gif, heif, tiff and auto (experimental only with middleware)
quality / q	_	/quality_50/buffalo.png	Accepted values: 0 to 100
rotate	Docs	/rotate_45/buffalo.png
enlarge	_	/enlarge,s_2000x2000/buffalo.png	Allow the image to be upscaled. By default the returned image will never be larger than the source in any dimension, while preserving the requested aspect ratio.
flip	Docs	/flip/buffalo.png
flop	Docs	/flop/buffalo.png
sharpen	Docs	/sharpen_30/buffalo.png
median	Docs	/median_10/buffalo.png
blur	Docs	/blur_5/buffalo.png
gamma	Docs	/gamma_3/buffalo.png
negate	Docs	/negate/buffalo.png
normalize	Docs	/normalize/buffalo.png
threshold	Docs	/threshold_10/buffalo.png
tint	Docs	/tint_1098123/buffalo.png
grayscale	Docs	/grayscale/buffalo.png
animated	-	/animated/buffalo.gif	Experimental

Config

Config can be customized using IPX_* environment variables.

• IPX_DIR

  • Default: . (current working directory)

• IPX_DOMAINS

  • Default: []

• IPX_MAX_AGE

  • Default: 300

• IPX_ALIAS

  • Default: {}

• IPX_FETCH_OPTIONS

  • Default: {}

License

MIT