On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:39:39 GMT, Angst wrote:

What would be the recommended way for doing server side image resizing/cropping?

I have also been experimenting with doing this stuff client side.
If I get that to work then I only need to do server side image verification and sanitation. Any advice?

The easiest and powerful way is using command line tool like ImageMagick. You can invoke it by std.process.spawnProcess.