--- title: "Google's Squoosh comes to Node" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 392 published_at: "2021-06-10" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/392" --- Plus a variety of library releases and updates this week. | #​392 — June 10, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/392) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/y06oxhmqlz5b2ioe3myi.jpg)](https://web.dev/introducing-libsquoosh/) [Introducing libSquoosh: Experimental Image Optimization from Node](https://web.dev/introducing-libsquoosh/) — [Squoosh](https://squoosh.app/) is an image optimization web app originally built by a team at Google in 2018 and since then it has been [updated](https://web.dev/squoosh-v2/) and offered in CLI form. Now, Surma has unveiled [libSquoosh](https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/dev/libsquoosh), a Node library for performing such extreme image optimization from whatever code you like. 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