Simple zip files or folder with Nodejs

Requirements

• MacOS or Linux computer

Installation

1. Install zip command on your computer
   • Ubuntu: run sudo apt-get install zip
   • CentOS: run sudo yum install zip
   • MacOS: do nothing because zip is installed on MacOS by default
2. Run yarn add joli-zip or npm i joli-zip

Usage

Typescript

import { zip } from 'joli-zip';
import { join } from 'path';

zip(
  [
    'file_1.pdf',
    'file_2.pdf',
    // (List of files and folder to zip)
  ],
  'test.zip',  // (output file name)
  {
    password: 'any password', // (zip password)
    workingDirectory: __dirname, // (Folder contains files to zip)
  }
)

Javascript

const { zip } = require('joli-zip');
const { join } = require('path')

zip(
  [
    'file_1.pdf',
    'file_2.pdf',
    // (List of files and folder to zip)
  ],
  'test.zip',  // (output file name)
  {
    password: 'any password', // (zip password)
    workingDirectory: __dirname, // (Folder contains files to zip)
  }
)