Generate Thumbnail of Image and save it to file

generateThumb.js

/**
 * simple function for generating an Image Thumbnail and save it to a file
 * Usage: 
 * 1. copy script and original image in a folder  
 * 2. run 'npm init --y && npm i image-thumbnail fs'
 * 3. execute script with node
 */
const imageThumbnail = require('image-thumbnail');
const { promises: fs } = require("fs");

async function generateThumb() {
    try {
        // default is 10 but I think 5 is sufficient
        const thumbnail = await imageThumbnail('./original.jpg', { percentage: 5 });
        await fs.writeFile('thumbnail.jpg', thumbnail, { encoding: 'base64' })
    } catch (err) {
        console.error(err);
    }
}

generateThumb()