itty-compressor

Install

itty-compressor is an ESM-only module - you are not able to import it with require. If you are unable to use ESM in your project you can use the async import('itty-compressor') from CommonJS to load itty-compressor asynchronously.
npm install itty-compressor

To use it in node then you need to have global support for CompressionStream, DecompressionStream and Response globally installed (Requires NodeJS v18)

note: This dose not currently work in FireFox. (due to lack of Compression stream)

Usage

For browsers you should use type="module"

<script type="module">
  import { compress, decompress } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/itty-compressor'
  const { compress, decompress } = await import('https://jspm.dev/itty-compressor')
</script>

import { compress, decompress } from 'itty-compressor'
import { compress, decompress } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/itty-compressor'

const body = 'hello world'.repeat(1024)
const compressed = compress(body) // Returns a `Response`
const decompressed = decompress(compressed.body) // Returns a `Response`

Both compress and ``decompresstakes the same argument that theResponse` constructor accepts, meaning ArrayBuffer, typed arrays, Blob, File, FormData, String, URLSearchParams ReadableStream and more. (Unsupported types will be casted to string)

fyi, NodeJS Response version also supports async iterator (so node streams works too)

Both method also supports a 2nd optional format that can be either gzip, deflate or deflate-raw. it defaults to gzip

Both method will return a Response back, so you can consume it anyway you like

await compress(body, 'deflate').arrayBuffer()
await compress(body, 'deflate').blob()
await compress(body, 'deflate').body.pipeTo(new WritableStream({ ... }))

await decompress(body, 'deflate').arrayBuffer()
await decompress(body, 'deflate').blob()
await decompress(body, 'deflate-raw').body.pipeTo(dest)
await decompress(body, 'deflate-raw').text()
await decompress(body, 'deflate-raw').json()

null and undefined is converted to empty string.