brotli-cli
v2.1.0
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Brotli files compressor, now from 10 times faster! ⚡
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brotli-cli
Brotli files compressor, now from 10 times faster! ⚡
Usage
- Install globally
npm i -g brotli-cli
- No install:
npx brotli-cli ... (other params)
Compressing given files:
brotli-cli compress file1.txt file2.svg file3.js
Files will be created in the same directory, but with
.br
extension appended. Overwriting will occur without asking.
Compressing by glob pattern:
brotli-cli compress --glob "public/*.html"
Files will be created in the same directory, but with
.br
extension appended. Overwriting will occur without asking.
Printing to stdout:
To do this, you can only specify one file to compress, and you have to add
-
at the end of the command.
brotli-cli compress index.html -
brotli-cli compress index.html - > compressed.html
Detailed usage
Commands:
brotli-cli compress Compresses specified files
Options:
--help Show help [boolean]
--version Show version number [boolean]
-m, --mode Brotli compression mode [generic, text, font] [default: "generic"]
-q, --quality Brotli compression quality [0-11] [default: 11]
-t, --threads Use this many concurrent jobs [number of threads or `true` for threads=CPUs
amount] [default: true]
-l, --lgwin Brotli compression window size [0, 10-24] [default: 24]
-b, --bail Stop execution on first error [boolean] [default: true]
--add-extension, --br Add .br extension to compressed files [boolean] [default: true]
-g, --glob Use glob pattern when matching files [boolean] [default: false]
--glob-skip-br-extension, --skip-br Always skip .br extension when matching files [boolean] [default: true]
-v, --verbose Run with verbose logging [boolean] [default: false]
Examples:
brotli-cli compress -q 5 image.jpg Compress `image.jpg` file with generic compression level 5 and save to image.jpg.br
brotli-cli compress -q 5 -br false image.jpg Compress `image.jpg` file and overwrite it
brotli-cli compress -mode text index.html - Compress `index.html` file with text mode max compression (level 11) and print to stdout
brotli-cli compress --glob "images/*.jpg" Compress all jpg files from `images` directory, stop on first error.
brotli-cli compress --glob --bail false "images/*.jpg" Compress all jpg files from `images` directory, do not stop on first error (will still print errors to stderr and exit with error code).
Limitations and warnings
Because node's zlib
can't work with streams (nor the previously used brotli
npm module) -
all the file contents to be compressed must be loaded into memory.
Usually this does not matter, but keep few things in mind:
- if you're low on memory and you're compressing large files you might want to decrease threads amount
- compressing files over 1GB on 32-bit systems and 2GB on 64-bit systems is even less memory efficient
- absolute max file size limit is 4GB (actually it's determined by
buffer.constants.MAX_LENGTH
so this may vary)
License
MIT