Gzipper
A tool for compressing files by means of Brotli and Gzip algorithms, works seamlessly with many CLI UI tools (Angular CLI, Vue CLI, create-react-app).
The flexibility of the algorithms could be extended by many options flags, including the gzip-level
, gzip-strategy
, gzip-memory-level
, brotli-param-mode
, brotli-quality
, brotli-size-hint
. All flags can be declared via ENV variables (ENV variables have higher priority over CLI arguments).
You can enable verbose
mode for better visual representation, customize your file output using output-file-format
or compress with incremental
flag if you have a lot of files that rarely change.
By default gzipper
compress all the files but you could use include
or exclude
options for better flexibility.
Install
npm i gzipper -g
- Locally to
devDependencies
.
npm i gzipper -D
Usage
Gzipper
Usage: gzipper [options] [command]
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
compress|c [options] <path> [outputPath] compress selected path and optionally set output directory
cache manipulations with cache
help [command] display help for command
Compress|c
Usage: gzipper compress|c [options] <path> [outputPath]
compress selected path and optionally set output directory
Options:
-v, --verbose detailed level of logs
--incremental (beta) incremental compression
-e, --exclude <extensions> exclude file extensions from compression, example: jpeg,jpg...
-i, --include <extensions> include file extensions for compression, example: js,css,html...
-t, --threshold <number> exclude assets smaller than this byte size. 0 (default)
--level <number> compression level 6 (default), 0 (no compression) - 9 (best compression)
--memory-level <number> amount of memory which will be allocated for compression 8 (default), 1 (minimum memory) - 9 (maximum memory)
--strategy <number> compression strategy 0 (default), 1 (filtered), 2 (huffman only), 3 (RLE), 4 (fixed)
--deflate enable deflate compression
--brotli enable brotli compression, Node.js >= v11.7.0
--brotli-param-mode <value> default, text (for UTF-8 text), font (for WOFF 2.0 fonts)
--brotli-quality <number> brotli compression quality 11 (default), 0 - 11
--brotli-size-hint <number> expected input size 0 (default)
--output-file-format <value> output file format with default artifacts [filename].[ext].[compressExt]
where:
filename -> file name
ext -> file extension
compressExt -> compress extension (.gz, .br, etc)
hash -> uniq uuid/v4 hash
examples:
[filename].[compressExt].[ext]
test-[filename]-[hash].[compressExt].[ext]
[filename]-[hash]-[filename]-tmp.[ext].[compressExt]
-h, --help display help for command
Cache
Usage: gzipper cache [options] [command]
manipulations with cache
Options:
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
purge purge cache storage
size size of cached resources
help [command] display help for command
Examples
CLI
-
Globally usage
gzipper compress [options] <path> [outputPath]
-
Locally usage
- Add module to scripts in your package.json and run
compress
command npm run compress
.
"scripts": {
"gzipper": "gzipper",
"compress": "gzipper compress ./dist"
}
- Use
npx
command.
"scripts": {
"compress": "npx gzipper compress ./dist"
}
-
UI build tools (e.g. Angular CLI)
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./dist"
}
- Compress files to a certain directory
./gzipped
(folders structure inside dist
will be saved)
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./dist ./gzipped"
}
- Compress files to very deep folder
./very/deep/folder
(all folders will be automatically created if not exist)
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./dist ./very/deep/folder"
}
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./dist/awesomeness.txt"
}
Node.js Module
const { Compress } = require('gzipper');
const gzip = new Compress('./test', './dist', { verbose: true });
try {
const files = await compress.run();
console.info('Compressed files: ', files);
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
}
- Run multiple algorithms at the same time.
const { Compress } = require('gzipper');
const gzip = new Compress('./test');
const brotli = new Compress('./test', null, { brotli: true });
try {
const [gzipFiles, brotliFiles] = await Promise.all([
gzip.compress(),
brotli.compress(),
]);
console.info('Compressed gzip files: ', gzipFiles);
console.info('Compressed brotli files: ', brotliFiles);
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
}
Options
Compress|c
ENV Variables have higher priority over CLI arguments.
--incremental
gzipper c --incremental ./dist
A special type of compression that significantly decreases the time of compression (on the second run) if you have a lot of big and rarely updated files. It creates a .gzipper
folder with pre-compressed files (cache
) and config that store all necessary metadata (.gzipperconfig
).
-v, --verbose
gzipper c --verbose ./dist
Get more information about executed work. (Could increase time of compression because of gathering additional metrics)
-e, --exclude
gzipper c --exclude jpeg,png,ico ./dist
Exclude file extensions from compression, example: jpeg,jpg...
-i, --include
gzipper c --include jpeg,png,ico ./dist
Include file extensions for compression(exclude others), example: js,css,html...
-t, --threshold
gzipper c --threshold 900 ./dist
Exclude assets smaller than this byte size. 0 (default)
--level
gzipper c --level 8 ./dist
Compression level 6 (default), 0 (no compression) - 9 (best compression)
--memory-level
gzipper c --memory-level 2 ./dist
Amount of memory which will be allocated for compression 8 (default), 1 (minimum memory) - 9 (maximum memory)
--strategy
gzipper c --strategy 3 ./dist
Compression strategy 0 (default), 1 (filtered), 2 (huffman only), 3 (RLE), 4 (fixed)
--deflate
gzipper c --deflate ./dist
Enable deflate compression.
--brotli
gzipper c --brotli ./dist
Enable brotli compression, Node.js >= v11.7.0.
--brotli-param-mode
gzipper c --brotli-param-mode text ./dist
Available values are default, text (for UTF-8 text), font (for WOFF 2.0 fonts), only for --brotli
--brotli-quality
gzipper c --brotli-quality 10 ./dist
Brotli compression quality 11 (default), 0 - 11, only for --brotli
--brotli-size-hint
gzipper c --brotli-size-hint 6 ./dist
Expected input size 0 (default), only for --brotli
--output-file-format
Output file format with artifacts, default format: [filename].[ext].[compressExt]
. Where: filename
-> name of your file, ext
-> file extension, compressExt
-> compress extension (.gz, .br, etc), hash
-> uniq hash.
Example: Expected project structure.
img
rabbit.jpg
cat.jpg
js
main.js
modules.js
xml
main.xml
index.js
gzipper c --output-file-format [filename].[compressExt].[ext] ./dist
img
rabbit.gz.jpg
cat.gz.jpg
js
main.gz.js
modules.gz.js
xml
main.gz.xml
index.gz.js
gzipper c --output-file-format test-[filename]-[hash].[compressExt].[ext] ./dist
img
test-rabbit-b4564011-ba7c-4bd6-834d-bf6c7791b7d4.gz.jpg
test-cat-739c7d7d-53ca-4f8e-912c-bad3b2b515a9.gz.jpg
js
test-main-4cc35dbd-36f7-4889-9f41-4d93e7a25bef.gz.js
test-modules-bce90cbd-5bf2-43c2-8b61-33aa1599b704.gz.js
xml
test-main-a90fa10e-f7a4-4af9-af67-f887bb96f98b.gz.xml
test-index-067c1e2d-0e12-4b57-980b-97c880c24d57.gz.js
gzipper c --output-file-format [filename]-[hash]-[filename]-tmp.[ext].[compressExt] ./dist
img
rabbit-b4564011-ba7c-4bd6-834d-bf6c7791b7d4-rabbit-tmp.jpg.gz
cat-739c7d7d-53ca-4f8e-912c-bad3b2b515a9cat-tmp.jpg.gz
js
main-4cc35dbd-36f7-4889-9f41-4d93e7a25bef-main-tmp.js.gz
modules-bce90cbd-5bf2-43c2-8b61-33aa1599b704-modules-tmp.js.gz
xml
main-a90fa10e-f7a4-4af9-af67-f887bb96f98b-main-tmp.xml.gz
index-067c1e2d-0e12-4b57-980b-97c880c24d57-index-tmp.js.gz
Cache
purge
gzipper cache purge
Removes all pre-compressed files from cache
which was generated via --incremental
flag.
size
gzipper cache size
Returns the size of all pre-compiled files from cache
.
Changelog
CHANGELOG.md
Contribution
I appreciate every contribution, just fork the repository and send the pull request with your changes.
Support