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Does deflate compression/decompression in the browser and node.
This module is not meant to be run on node for any production code. The native version of deflate should be used instead because it is much faster. The main reason for this being node-compatible is for testing purposes.
Currently deflate does not pass all tests, but inflate does. This should not be used for compressing data yet in production.
For node, deflate-js can be installed with npm: npm install deflate-js
For the browser, deflate-js can be installed with pakmanager.
Deflate:
deflate(arr[, level])
arr- Byte array to compress
level- 1-9 (compression level; optional)
Inflate:
inflate(arr)
arr- Byte array to decompress
The basic usage (no level) will suffice for most purposes.
var deflate = require('deflate-js'),
arr;
arr = Array.prototype.map.call('Hello world', function (char) {
return char.charCodeAt(0);
});
// compress some text
var compressed = deflate.deflate(arr);
// decompress some text
var decompressed = deflate.inflate(compressed);
FAQs
DEFLATE implemented in JavaScript (works in browser and Node)
The npm package deflate-js receives a total of 24,568 weekly downloads. As such, deflate-js popularity was classified as popular.
We found that deflate-js 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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