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html-compress-api
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HTML-Compress-API
Simple JS package to compress HTML data (optionally into a dataURI).
Setup
To use the package, start by importing it using:
const { compress } = require("html-compress-api")
Compressing HTML data
The package offers two ways of compressing the data:
HTML
This will compress the HTML into a compressed self-extracting HTML file (using a script tag):
const sample = "<body>This is a test</body>"
const { compressed, bytes_saved } = compress(sample, "html")
DataURI
This will compress the HTML into the compressed self-extracting first and then convert it into a dataURI. This mode is useful for fitting HTML pages into QR codes.
const sample = "<body>This is a test</body>"
const { compressed, bytes_saved } = compress(sample, "dataURI")
Note
The compressor only works well on data over ~300 bytes, otherwise it may increase the size of the data.
How it works
The package first compresses the HTML data using raw-deflate, then encoded to base64 and finally packed it into a tiny decompressor.
FAQs
A simple API to compress HTML
We found that html-compress-api 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.
Package last updated on 27 Jan 2025
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