A Node.js module to resize, crop, manipulate images, maintain different presets of the same image and upload to rackspace cloudfiles. Its completely asynchronous.

Installation

$ npm install imager

Usage

You need to create imager configuration file with image variants and your storages

Below is an example config

module.exports = {
  variants: {
    items: {
      resize: { mini : "300x200", preview: "800x600" },
      crop: { thumb: "200x200" },
      resizeAndCrop: { large: {resize: "1000x1000", crop: "900x900"} }
    },
  },
  storage: {
    Rackspace: {
      auth: {
        username: "USERNAME", apiKey: "API_KEY", host: "lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com"
      },
      container: "CONTAINER_NAME"
    }
  },
  debug: true
}

and then

var Imager = require('imager');
  , imagerConfig = require('path/to/imager-config.js')
  , imager = new Imager(imagerConfig, 'Rackspace')

Uploading file(s)

The callback recieves an err object, a files array (containing the names of the files which were uploaded) and the cdnUri.

Suppose you have a variant, say thumb, then you can access the image by cdnUri+'/'+'thumb_'+files[0]. This would be the complete url of the image

Form upload (multiple images)

If you are using express, you will recieve all the form files in req.files.

imager.upload(req.files.image, function(err, cdnUri, files) {
  // do your stuff
}, 'projects')

Here, projects is your scope or variant. If you don’t specify the scope or the variant, imager will try to look for a default variant named default. You must either specify a variant like above or provide a default variant.

Upload local images

imager.upload(['/path/to/file'], function (err, cdnUri, files) {
  // do your stuff
}, 'projects')

Here files can be an array or a string. Make sure the path is absolute.

Removing file(s)

Remove from cloudfiles

var files = ['1330838831049.png', '1330838831049.png']
imager.remove(files, function (err) {
  // do your stuff
}, 'projects')

files can be array of filenames or a string of single filename.

Even here, if the variant is not specified, imager will try to look for the default variant. If neither of them are provided, you will get an error.

Debugging

If you specify debug: true in the imager config, you can see the logs of uploaded / removed files.

To-do’s

  • Support amazon storage
  • Write more tests

Resources: