Web Compressor

Utility for creating gzip and brotli pre-compressed files for a static web serving.

Using as a CLI

Base example (run inside folder with static assets):

npx @web-alchemy/web-compressor

Example with all parameters:

npx @web-alchemy/web-compressor \
  --input=<input-folder> \
  --output=<output-folder> \
  --formats=gzip,brotli \
  --ext-white-list=.html,.css,.js,.json,.svg,.txt,.xml \
  --concurrency=4 \
  --file-size=4096

Using as a module

npm install @web-alchemy/web-compressor

const { compress, formats } = require('@web-alchemy/web-compressor');

compress({
  input: '<input-folder>',
  output: '<output-folder>',
  formats: [formats.GZIP, formats.BROTLI]
  extWhiteList: ['.html', '.css', '.js', '.json', '.svg', '.txt', '.xml'],
  concurrency: 4,
  fileSize: 4096
}).then(() => {
  // operation end
}).catch(() => {
  // operation error
});

Params Description

| CLI Param | Module Param | Description | default value | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | --from (alias --input) | from (alias input) | Input folder | process.cwd() | | --to (alias --output) | to (alias output)| Output folder | from param value| | --formats | formats | Formats of output files | ['gzip', 'brotli']| | --ext-white-list | extWhiteList | A list of extensions that will be used to filter the necessary files | ['.html', '.css', '.js', '.json', '.svg', '.txt', '.xml'] | | --concurrency | concurrency | number of parallel handlers | os.cpus().length | | --file-size | fileSize | File size treshold in bytes. Files smaller than this size will be ignored | 0 |

Enabling precompressed files serving in web servers

• Nginx. gzip, brotli
• Caddy
• H2O