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The 'inflation' npm package is used to handle HTTP content encoding. It automatically decompresses HTTP responses that are compressed using gzip, deflate, or other supported algorithms. This is particularly useful in web applications and APIs where data compression is commonly used to reduce the size of the payload.
Automatic Decompression
This feature automatically decompresses incoming HTTP requests that are compressed using gzip, deflate, or other supported algorithms. The code sample demonstrates how to use the 'inflation' package to handle decompression in an HTTP server.
const http = require('http');
const inflation = require('inflation');
http.createServer((req, res) => {
req = inflation(req);
let data = '';
req.on('data', chunk => {
data += chunk;
});
req.on('end', () => {
res.end(data);
});
}).listen(3000);
The 'zlib' package is a core Node.js module that provides compression and decompression functionalities. Unlike 'inflation', which automatically handles HTTP content encoding, 'zlib' requires manual handling of streams and is more low-level. It supports gzip, deflate, and other compression algorithms.
The 'decompress' package is used for extracting compressed files. While it is not specifically designed for HTTP content encoding like 'inflation', it supports various compression formats such as zip, tar, and gzip. It is more suitable for file decompression rather than HTTP stream decompression.
The 'node-unzipper' package is used for unzipping files in Node.js. It is similar to 'decompress' but focuses on zip files. Unlike 'inflation', it is not designed for HTTP content encoding but for handling zip file decompression.
Automatically unzip an HTTP stream.
var inflate = require('inflation')
Returns a stream that emits inflated data from the given stream.
Options:
encoding
- The encoding of the stream (gzip
or deflate
).
If not given, will look in stream.headers['content-encoding']
.var inflate = require('inflation')
var raw = require('raw-body')
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
raw(inflate(req), 'utf-8', function (err, string) {
console.dir(string)
})
})
FAQs
Easily unzip an HTTP stream
The npm package inflation receives a total of 901,069 weekly downloads. As such, inflation popularity was classified as popular.
We found that inflation demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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