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lzwcompress
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Lossless LZW compression/decompression implemented in JavaScript for strings/JSON/JS objects.
Lossless LZW compression/decompression implemented in JavaScript for strings/JSON/JS objects.
Install lzwCompress from npm:
npm install lzwcompress
And then to use it in your node.js applications:
import lzwCompress from 'lzwcompress';
const json = {
name: 'Mr. JavaScript Kumar',
age: 42,
start_date: new Date(),
address: {
street: '123 MG Road',
city: 'Mumbai',
state: 'Maharashtra',
country: 'India'
}
};
// to compress objects
const compressed = lzwCompress.pack(json);
// to uncomress
const original = lzwCompress.unpack(compressed);
console.log(original);
Applies LZW compression and JSON key optimization and makes JSON (or any javascript object) smaller for local storage, to ship up to the server etc.
For use in Angular 1.X projects, check out the angular-lzwcompress module
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Lossless LZW compression/decompression implemented in JavaScript for strings/JSON/JS objects.
The npm package lzwcompress receives a total of 3,684 weekly downloads. As such, lzwcompress popularity was classified as popular.
We found that lzwcompress 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.
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