A tool for compressing files by means of Deflate, Brotli, gzip, Zopfli and zstd 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,
including the --gzip-level,
--gzip-strategy,
--gzip-memory-level,
--brotli-param-mode,
--brotli-quality,
--brotli-size-hint.
All options 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 option 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 flexibility.
compress|c
--incremental-v, --verbose-e, --exclude <extensions>-i, --include <extensions>-t, --threshold <number>--gzip--deflate--brotli--zopfli--zstd--gzip-level <number>--gzip-memory-level <number>--gzip-strategy <number>--deflate-level <number>--deflate-memory-level <number>--deflate-strategy <number>--brotli-param-mode <value>--brotli-quality <number>--brotli-size-hint <number>--zopfli-num-iterations <number>--zopfli-block-splitting--zopfli-block-splitting-max <number>--zstd-level <number>--output-file-format <value>--remove-larger--skip-compressed--workers <number>cache
Globally
npm i gzipper -g
Locally to devDependencies.
npm i gzipper -D
gzipperUsage: 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|cUsage: gzipper compress|c [options] <path> [outputPath]
compress selected path and optionally set output directory
Options:
-v, --verbose detailed level of logs
--incremental 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)
--deflate enable deflate compression
--brotli enable brotli compression
--gzip enable gzip compression
--zopfli enable zopfli compression
--zstd enable zstd compression
--gzip-level <number> gzip compression level 6 (default), 0 (no compression) - 9 (best compression)
--gzip-memory-level <number> amount of memory which will be allocated for gzip compression 8 (default), 1 (minimum memory) - 9 (maximum memory)
--gzip-strategy <number> gzip compression strategy 0 (default), 1 (filtered), 2 (huffman only), 3 (RLE), 4 (fixed)
--deflate-level <number> deflate compression level 6 (default), 0 (no compression) - 9 (best compression)
--deflate-memory-level <number> amount of memory which will be allocated for deflate compression 8 (default), 1 (minimum memory) - 9 (maximum memory)
--deflate-strategy <number> deflate compression strategy 0 (default), 1 (filtered), 2 (huffman only), 3 (RLE), 4 (fixed)
--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)
--zopfli-num-iterations <number> maximum amount of times to rerun forward and backward pass to optimize LZ77 compression cost
--zopfli-block-splitting splits the data in multiple deflate blocks with optimal choice for the block boundaries
--zopfli-block-splitting-max <number> maximum amount of blocks to split into (0 for unlimited, but this can give extreme results that hurt compression on some files)
--zstd-level <number> zstd compression level 1 (default), 5 (best compression)
--output-file-format <value> output file format with default artifacts [filename].[ext].[compressExt]
--remove-larger remove compressed files if they larger than uncompressed originals
--skip-compressed skip compressed files if they already exist
--workers <number> numbers of workers which will be spawned, system CPU cores count (default)
-h, --help display help for command
cacheUsage: 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
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 ./src"
}
Use npx command
"scripts": {
"compress": "npx gzipper compress ./src"
}
UI build tools (e.g. Angular CLI)
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./src"
}
Compress files to a certain directory ./dist (folders structure inside src will be saved)
"scripts": {
"compress": "gzipper compress ./src ./dist"
}
Compress files to very deep folder ./very/deep/folder/dist (all folders will be automatically created if not exist)
"scripts": {
"compress": "gzipper compress ./src ./very/deep/folder/dist"
}
Compress a single file
"scripts": {
"compress": "gzipper compress ./src/awesomeness.txt"
}
const { Compress } = require('gzipper');
const gzip = new Compress('./src', './dist', {
verbose: true,
brotli: true,
deflate: true,
});
try {
const files = await gzip.run();
console.info('Compressed files: ', files);
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
}
compress|c| CLI argument | ENV variable |
|---|---|
--incremental | GZIPPER_INCREMENTAL (0 or 1) |
-v, --verbose | GZIPPER_VERBOSE (0 or 1) |
-e, --exclude <extensions> | GZIPPER_EXCLUDE |
-i, --include <extensions> | GZIPPER_INCLUDE |
-t, --threshold <number> | GZIPPER_THRESHOLD |
--gzip | GZIPPER_GZIP (0 or 1) |
--deflate | GZIPPER_DEFLATE (0 or 1) |
--brotli | GZIPPER_BROTLI (0 or 1) |
--zopfli | GZIPPER_ZOPFLI (0 or 1) |
--zstd | GZIPPER_ZSTD (0 or 1) |
--gzip-level <number> | GZIPPER_GZIP_LEVEL |
--gzip-memory-level <number> | GZIPPER_GZIP_MEMORY_LEVEL |
--gzip-strategy <number> | GZIPPER_GZIP_STRATEGY |
--deflate-level <number> | GZIPPER_DEFLATE_LEVEL |
--deflate-memory-level <number> | GZIPPER_DEFLATE_MEMORY_LEVEL |
--deflate-strategy <number> | GZIPPER_DEFLATE_STRATEGY |
--brotli-param-mode <value> | GZIPPER_BROTLI_PARAM_MODE |
--brotli-quality <number> | GZIPPER_BROTLI_QUALITY |
--brotli-size-hint <number> | GZIPPER_BROTLI_SIZE_HINT |
--zopfli-num-iterations <number> | GZIPPER_ZOPFLI_NUM_ITERATIONS |
--zopfli-block-splitting | GZIPPER_ZOPFLI_BLOCK_SPLITTING (0 or 1) |
--zopfli-block-splitting-max <number> | GZIPPER_ZOPFLI_BLOCK_SPLITTING_MAX |
--zstd-level <number> | GZIPPER_ZSTD_LEVEL |
--output-file-format <value> | GZIPPER_OUTPUT_FILE_FORMAT |
--remove-larger | GZIPPER_REMOVE_LARGER (0 or 1) |
--skip-compressed | GZIPPER_SKIP_COMPRESSED (0 or 1) |
--workers <number> | GZIPPER_WORKERS |
ENV variables have higher priority over CLI arguments.
--incrementalgzipper c ./src --incremental
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 stores all necessary metadata (.gzipperconfig).
-v, --verbosegzipper c ./src --verbose
Get more information about executed work. (Could increase time of compression because of gathering additional metrics)
-e, --exclude <extensions>gzipper c ./src --exclude jpeg,jpg,png,ico
Exclude file extensions from compression.
Compression extensions br, gz, zz and zst are
excluded by default.
-i, --include <extensions>gzipper c ./src --include js,css,html
Include file extensions for compression (exclude others).
-t, --threshold <number>gzipper c ./src --threshold 900
Exclude assets smaller than this byte size. Default is 0 byte.
--gzipgzipper c ./src --gzip
Enable gzip compression. (default behavior)
--deflategzipper c ./src --deflate
Enable Deflate compression.
--brotligzipper c ./src --brotli
Enable Brotli compression.
--zopfligzipper c ./src --zopfli
Enable Zopfli compression.
--zstdgzipper c ./src --zstd
Enable Zstandard compression.
--gzip-level <number>gzipper c ./src --gzip-level 8
gzip compression level:
6 (default), 0 (no compression) - 9 (best compression).
Only for --gzip.
--gzip-memory-level <number>gzipper c ./src --gzip-memory-level 2
Amount of memory that will be allocated for gzip compression:
8 (default), 1 (minimum memory) - 9 (maximum memory).
Only for --gzip.
--gzip-strategy <number>gzipper c ./src --gzip-strategy 3
gzip compression strategy:
0 (default), 1 (filtered), 2 (huffman only), 3 (RLE), 4 (fixed).
Only for --gzip.
--deflate-level <number>gzipper c ./src --deflate-level 8
Deflate compression level:
6 (default), 0 (no compression) - 9 (best compression).
Only for --deflate.
--deflate-memory-level <number>gzipper c ./src --deflate-memory-level 2
Amount of memory that will be allocated for deflate compression:
8 (default), 1 (minimum memory) - 9 (maximum memory).
Only for --deflate.
--deflate-strategy <number>gzipper c ./src --deflate-strategy 3
Deflate compression strategy:
0 (default), 1 (filtered), 2 (huffman only), 3 (RLE), 4 (fixed).
Only for --deflate.
--brotli-param-mode <value>gzipper c ./src --brotli-param-mode text
Available values are:
text (for UTF-8 text, default) and font (for WOFF 2.0 fonts).
Only for --brotli.
--brotli-quality <number>gzipper c ./src --brotli-quality 10
Brotli compression quality: 11 (default), 0 - 11.
Only for --brotli.
--brotli-size-hint <number>gzipper c ./src --brotli-size-hint 6
Estimated total input size for all files to compress:
0 (default, which means that the size is unknown).
Only for --brotli.
--zopfli-num-iterations <number>gzipper c ./src --zopfli-num-iterations 15
Maximum amount of times to rerun forward and backward pass to optimize LZ77 compression cost.
Good values: 10, 15 for small files, 5 for files over several MB in size or it will be too slow.
Only for --zopfli.
--zopfli-block-splittinggzipper c ./src --zopfli-block-splitting
If true, splits the data in multiple deflate blocks with optimal choice for the block boundaries.
Block splitting gives better compression. Only for --zopfli.
--zopfli-block-splitting-max <number>gzipper c ./src --zopfli-block-splitting-max 5
Maximum amount of blocks to split into.
0 for unlimited, but this can give extreme results that hurt compression on some files.
Only for --zopfli.
--zstd-level <number>gzipper c ./src --zstd-level 8
Zstd compression level: 1 (default), 5 (best compression).
Only for --zstd.
--output-file-format <value>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 ./src --output-file-format [filename].[compressExt].[ext]
img
rabbit.jpg
rabbit.gz.jpg
cat.jpg
cat.gz.jpg
js
main.js
main.gz.js
modules.js
modules.gz.js
xml
main.xml
main.gz.xml
index.js
index.gz.js
gzipper c ./src --output-file-format test-[filename]-[hash].[compressExt].[ext]
img
rabbit.jpg
cat.jpg
test-rabbit-b4564011-ba7c-4bd6-834d-bf6c7791b7d4.gz.jpg
test-cat-739c7d7d-53ca-4f8e-912c-bad3b2b515a9.gz.jpg
js
main.js
modules.js
test-main-4cc35dbd-36f7-4889-9f41-4d93e7a25bef.gz.js
test-modules-bce90cbd-5bf2-43c2-8b61-33aa1599b704.gz.js
xml
main.xml
test-main-a90fa10e-f7a4-4af9-af67-f887bb96f98b.gz.xml
index.js
test-index-067c1e2d-0e12-4b57-980b-97c880c24d57.gz.js
gzipper c ./src --output-file-format [filename]-[hash]-[filename]-tmp.[ext].[compressExt]
img
rabbit.jpg
rabbit-b4564011-ba7c-4bd6-834d-bf6c7791b7d4-rabbit-tmp.jpg.gz
cat.jpg
cat-739c7d7d-53ca-4f8e-912c-bad3b2b515a9cat-tmp.jpg.gz
js
main.js
main-4cc35dbd-36f7-4889-9f41-4d93e7a25bef-main-tmp.js.gz
modules.js
modules-bce90cbd-5bf2-43c2-8b61-33aa1599b704-modules-tmp.js.gz
xml
main.xml
main-a90fa10e-f7a4-4af9-af67-f887bb96f98b-main-tmp.xml.gz
index.js
index-067c1e2d-0e12-4b57-980b-97c880c24d57-index-tmp.js.gz
--remove-largerRemoves compressed files larger than uncompressed originals in your directory.
--skip-compressedIgnores compressed files that have already exist in your directory.
Only with default --output-file-format.
--workers <number>Spawn workers for parallel compression. Be aware of workers number because every worker creates an additional thread. More info at nodesource.com.
cache| Command |
|---|
purge |
size |
purgegzipper cache purge
Removes all pre-compressed files from cache that was generated via --incremental argument.
sizegzipper cache size
Returns the size of all pre-compiled files from cache.
I appreciate every contribution, just fork the repository and send the pull request with your changes.
If you want to use --zstd compression,
you have to make sure that the appropriate library
is installed and available at your environment:
where zstd.exe # Windows
command -v zstd # MacOS/Linux
If you didn't find executable zstd you have to install this manually:
MacOS using Brew
brew install zstd # zstd only
brew install zlib # whole library
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Ubuntu, Debian... using APT
sudo apt install zstd
FAQs
CLI for compressing files.
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