Local generation of favicons about favicons HOT 5 CLOSED

@garygreen Yeah versions 1 and 2 of favicons used Image/Graphics Magick to produce the icons, however I partnered up with RealFaviconGenerator for version 3 so favicons is simply a wrapper for their service. This occurred for a few reasons, the main being that I can focus on maintaining a node module while they can focus on maintaining the evolving icon standards.

We have heard this issue about local generation and we're looking into it at the moment - we have some ideas.

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Relying on another service and access to the internet for your build tool to function is a big turn off for me. But I understand it's difficult to maintain with the evolving standards. Would love to see local generation back in :-)

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There is also this option for local image generation to consider: https://github.com/oliver-moran/jimp
claims to be node JS only. Not requiring Image/Graphics Magick would be pretty neat

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@Maximilianos Jimp seems pretty cool. I'm tossing up between that or Sharp. Dependency on libvips is a tad annoying but still. Thoughts?

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@garygreen @Maximilianos @tlvince Hey all, merging this issue into Favicons 4.0. I'd love for you to join in the discussion: #51

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