zstandard

node-zstandard

zstandard bindings for Node

Getting started

Prerequisites

This project requires the zstandard library (libzstd) to be installed on your system. Generally, you can install it via your system's package manager, but you can always compile and install it yourself.

Installation

Add the zstandard module to your project:

$ npm install zstandard

Usage

var zstd = require('zstandard');

let buf = new Buffer();

// pass a buffer and get back a compressed buffer
let compressed = zstd.compress(buf);

// pass a compressed buffer and get back the original data
let decompressed = zstd.decompress(compressed);

API

compress(data: Buffer): Buffer

Compresses data. Takes and returns a Buffer object.

decompress(data: Buffer): Buffer

Decompresses data. Takes and returns a Buffer object.