EZLIB

Easy static methods wrapped around the zlib module.

Install as a dependency in your express project

npm i -S ezlib

Using

compress, and decompress with options

ES6

import Ezlib from 'ezlib';

//  compress with default options (encoding: base64)
var textToDeflate = 'eeeeeeeeeeeeZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ222222222222';
var deflatedString = Ezlib.compress(textToDeflate);
//  compress with gzip
var gzipString = Ezlib.compress(textToDeflate, { gzip: true });

// inflate default
var inflatedString = Ezlib.decompress(deflatedString);
//  gunzip
var gunzippedString = Ezlib.decompress(gzipString, { gzip: true });

//  working with a web app or api, we can do some parsing of specific options in the body
//  current options keys: 
//    'ezlib.options.gzip' (bool)
//    'ezlib.options.raw' (bool)
//    ezlib.options.encoding' (string)
var ezOptions = Ezlib.parseZlibOptionsFromBody(req.body);
var ezData = Ezlib.decompress(deflatedString, ezOptions);

Contributing

clone the repo, ES6 source code is in the src directory, make your changes, test and build. npm run build will lint, test, and security check before transpiling into the lib directory.