browserify-zlib
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Emulates Node's zlib module for the browser. Can be used as a drop in replacement with Browserify and webpack.
The heavy lifting is done using pako. The code in this module is modeled closely after the code in the source of Node core to get as much compatability as possible.
https://nodejs.org/api/zlib.html
The following options/methods are not supported because pako does not support them yet.
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Pako is a high-speed zlib port to pure javascript that works in the browser. It is the underlying library used by browserify-zlib. Pako is generally faster than browserify-zlib because it is a lower-level library and does not include the additional Browserify wrapper.
This package is a backport of Node.js's zlib module for older versions of Node. It provides similar compression and decompression functionalities but is intended for server-side use in Node.js rather than in browsers.
Fflate is a high-performance, low-level compression library for JavaScript. It offers similar compression and decompression capabilities as browserify-zlib but focuses on speed and efficiency, often outperforming pako in benchmarks.
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Full zlib module for the browser
The npm package browserify-zlib receives a total of 11,157,528 weekly downloads. As such, browserify-zlib popularity was classified as popular.
We found that browserify-zlib demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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