JSON Zip Response in node.js

Question

I\'m pretty new to node.js and I\'m trying to send back a zip file containing JSON results. I\'ve been trying to figure it out how to do it, but haven\'t had the expected result

Answer 1

For Express 4+, compress does not come bundled with Express and needs to be installed separately.

$ npm install compression

Then to use the library:

var compression = require('compression');
app.use(compression());

There are a bunch of options you can tune, see here for the list.