gulp-pako

gulp-pako

A Gulp plugin for Pako, a port of the zlib library written in pure JavaScript.

Purpose

This plugin helps create compressed copies of your static assets using the gzip or deflate formats. Your web server can then be configured to serve these directly to browsers, avoiding the overhead of on-the-fly compression.

• For Nginx, refer to ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
• For Apache, refer to the MultiViews option.
• For Amazon S3, just upload the compressed files alongside your uncompressed files. Be sure to set the Content-Type and Content-Encoding headers.

Install

$ npm install --save-dev gulp-pako

Example

Given the files js/app.js and css/app.css this example will produce js/app.js.gz and js/app.css.deflate.

var gulp = require('gulp');
var pako = require('gulp-pako');

gulp.task('gzip', function() {
  gulp.src('./js/*.js')
    .pipe(pako.gzip())
    .pipe(gulp.dest("./js"));
});

gulp.task('deflate', function() {
  gulp.src('./css/*.css')
    .pipe(pako.deflate())
    .pipe(gulp.dest("./css"));
});

gulp.task('default', ['gzip', 'deflate']);

API

var pako = require('gulp-pako');

pako([format], [options])

Returns a transform Stream which compresses files using the specified format.

format (String, optional)

The compression format to use. Supported formats are 'gzip' and 'deflate'. Defaults to 'gzip'.

options (Object, optional)

Options to pass directly to Pako. Refer to the Pako API for more details.

pako.gzip([options])

Same as pako('gzip', options)

pako.deflate([options])

Same as pako('deflate', options)

Testing

$ npm test

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 James Wyse [e-mail]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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