gzip-server

Simple static asset server with gzip compression, so you can figure out what slows down production page load time.

(For example, JSON will be very large without compression, but shrinking it is not worth the trouble since it compresses so well.)

Don't want the dependencies? npm i gzip-server-prebuilt . (link)

npx

npx gzip-server

global install

npm i -g gzip-server
gzip-server

# options:
DIR=./wherever/public PORT=3000 LEVEL=9 gzip-server

dev dependency

npm i --save-dev gzip-server

package.json:

{
    "scripts": {
        "serve": "gzip-server"
    }
}