compressible
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The compressible npm package is used to determine if a given MIME type is compressible. This is useful when working with HTTP servers and clients to decide whether to apply compression to a particular resource based on its Content-Type.
Check if MIME type is compressible
This feature allows you to check if a specific MIME type is generally considered compressible. Text-based formats like HTML are typically compressible, while binary formats like PNG are not.
const compressible = require('compressible');
console.log(compressible('text/html')); // true
console.log(compressible('image/png')); // falseThe mime-types package provides a library for resolving a file's MIME type based on its extension. It can also look up the extension based on a MIME type. While it does not directly tell you if a MIME type is compressible, it can be used in conjunction with other libraries to make that determination.
The compression package is an Express middleware for Node.js that provides response compression. It automatically determines if the response should be compressed or not, using a similar logic to what compressible provides, but it is more focused on the actual compression process rather than just the determination.
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Compressible Content-Type / mime checking.
var compressible = require('compressible')
compressible('text/html') // -> true
compressible('image/png') // -> false
Returns the specifications object associated with the given Content-Type.
Generates an object using the regex if none is found.
Exports specifications.json.
The regular expression that checks the Content-Type.
However, you should use compressible(type) instead of this regular expression due to additional non-regex checks.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Jonathan Ong me@jongleberry.com
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Compressible Content-Type / mime checking
We found that compressible demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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