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Get a pretty output of the original, minified, gzipped size of a string or buffer: 130 B → 91 B → 53 B (gzip)
Get a pretty output of the original, minified, gzipped size of a string or buffer
Useful for logging the difference between original and minified file in, for example, a build-system.
npm install maxmin
import maxmin from 'maxmin';
const max = 'function smoothRangeRandom(min,max){var num=Math.floor(Math.random()*(max-min+1)+min);return this.prev=num===this.prev?++num:num};';
const min = '(function(b,c){var a=Math.floor(Math.random()*(c-b+1)+b);return this.a=a===this.a?++a:a})()';
console.log(maxmin(max, min, true));
//=> '130 B → 91 B → 53 B (gzip)'
Type: string | Buffer | number
Original string or its size in bytes.
Type: string | Buffer | number
Minified string or its size in bytes.
Type: boolean
Default: false
Show gzipped size of min
. Pretty slow. Not shown when min
is a number
.
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Get a pretty output of the original, minified, gzipped size of a string or buffer: 130 B → 91 B → 53 B (gzip)
The npm package maxmin receives a total of 273,325 weekly downloads. As such, maxmin popularity was classified as popular.
We found that maxmin demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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