compressed

a tiny JSON compression lib with great power.

Install

npm install compressed

Compression Ratio

Demo by compressing a 3.1M json response from Hubspot demo sandbox.

[String Length]
Original String Length (3252404)
Packed String Length (190816)

Size Ratio: 0.058 to Orinial. Compressed about 17x in string length!

[File Size]
Original File Size (3252437)
Compressed Packed File Size (143111)

Size Ratio: 0.044 to Orinial. Compressed about 22x in file size!

API

pack(originalJSON [, bufferMode = false])

Compress an Object|Array|JSON string into compressed base64 string.

• originalJSON {any} a JSON string|Buffer|Array|Object.
• bufferMode {bool} [Optional, default = false] directly output the buffer without converting to string.
• @async This is an async funtion and returns a promise.
• @returns {Promise} a compressed string in base64 encoding.

unpack(packedJSON [, bufferMode = false])

Unpack an compressed Buffer back into JSON string

• packedJSON {string} the compressed base64 JSON string.
• bufferMode {bool} [Optional, default = false] if packedJSON is a buffer from pack() in bufferMode.
• @async This is an async funtion and returns a promise.
• @returns {Promise} a JSON string in utf8 encoding. */

Example

const comp = require(`compressed`);

// Promise Style
comp.pack('{"a":1, "b":2, "c":"foo"}').then(packed => console.log(packed)); // eJyrVkpUsjLUUVBKUrIyAlLJSlZKafn5SrUASpgGHA==

comp.unpack(`eJyrVkpUsjLUUVBKUrIyAlLJSlZKafn5SrUASpgGHA==`).then(unpacked => console.log(unpacked)); // {"a":1, "b":2, "c":"foo"}

// Async/Await
const packed = await comp.pack('{"a":1, "b":2, "c":"foo"}');
const unpacked = await comp.unpack(packed);

License

Licensed under MIT Copyright (c) 2017 Phoenix Song