Module initialization error on using Sharp in AWS lambda

I create Lambda function (Node.js 6.10)

Basically, I’m trying to resize the S3 image and upload it again to another bucket. I chose Sharp for the resize method.

exports.handler = function(event, ctx, callback) {
...
function resizeImg(url, width, height) {
        request.get(url, function(err, res, body) {
            if (err) {
                reject(err);
            }
            sharp(body)
                .resize(width, height, { kernel: sharp.kernel.nearest })
                .toBuffer()
                .then(function(resizedBuffer) {
                    console.log('Resize image Successfully');
                }).catch(function(error) {
                    console.log(error);
                    return;
                });
        })
    }

...
}

I got error:

module initialization error: Error at Error (native) at Object.Module._extensions…node (module.js:597:18) at Module.load (module.js:487:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3) at Module.require (module.js:497:17) at require (internal/module.js:20:19) at Object.<anonymous> (/var/task/edg-image-resizer/node_modules/sharp/lib/constructor.js:10:15) at Module._compile (module.js:570:32) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:579:10)

Here’s my log of install the sharp:

$ npm i sharp
> sharp@0.20.5 install /Users/xxxxx/Documents/Node/lambda-functions/abc-image-resizer/node_modules/sharp
> (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)

info sharp Downloading https://github.com/lovell/sharp-libvips/releases/download/v8.6.1/libvips-8.6.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN edg-image-resizer@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN edg-image-resizer@1.0.0 No repository field.

+ sharp@0.20.5
added 75 packages from 93 contributors and audited 178 packages in 10.707s
found 0 vulnerabilities

Any suggestion is appreciated

[tobiastornros]

remove sharp from node_modules and run: env npm_config_arch=x64 npm_config_platform=linux npm_config_target=8.10.0 npm install --save sharp

Change npm_config_target if you run node 6.10

[francophongvu]

Hi, thanks for all suggestions, I followed an instruction to deploy the function (nodejs) using Sharp to AWS Lambda:

• Install and run Docker
• in package, add : “dockerbuild”: "rm -rf node_modules/sharp && docker run -v \"$PWD\":/var/task lambci/lambda:build-nodejs8.10 npm install" in script
• Run npm run dockerbuild
• Zip content and upload to Lambda

It worked for me. Share it here for ref