A library for creating, reading and editing .zip files with JavaScript, with a lovely and simple API.
See https://stuk.github.io/jszip for all the documentation.
const zip = new JSZip();
zip.file("Hello.txt", "Hello World\n");
const img = zip.folder("images");
img.file("smile.gif", imgData, {base64: true});
zip.generateAsync({type:"blob"}).then(function(content) {
// see FileSaver.js
saveAs(content, "example.zip");
});
/*
Results in a zip containing
Hello.txt
images/
smile.gif
*/
JSZip is dual-licensed. You may use it under the MIT license or the GPLv3 license. See LICENSE.markdown.
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The npm package jszip receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, jszip popularity was classified as not popular.
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