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@amoutonbrady/lz-string
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This is a modern port of the original lz-string.
The project was not really supported and maintained anymore.
I rewrote it in modern javascript syntax, typescript, compiled it with esbuild and wrote tests with uvu.
The size is much smaller and it play nicer with modern bundlers.
$ npm install @amoutonbrady/lz-string
import { compress, decompress } from '@amoutonbrady/lz-string'
const compressed = compress('hello world')
const decompressed = decompress(compressed)
The API is the same as lz-string, minus a few methods that needs re-implementations:
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Modern port of LZ-String
We found that @amoutonbrady/lz-string demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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