Node.js: Gzip compression?

Question

Am I wrong in finding that Node.js does no gzip compression and there are no modules out there to perform gzip compression? How can anyone use a web server that has no compr

Answer 1

For compressing the file you can use below code

var fs = require("fs");
var zlib = require('zlib');
fs.createReadStream('input.txt').pipe(zlib.createGzip())
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('input.txt.gz'));
console.log("File Compressed.");

For decompressing the same file you can use below code

var fs = require("fs");
var zlib = require('zlib');
fs.createReadStream('input.txt.gz')
.pipe(zlib.createGunzip())
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('input.txt'));
console.log("File Decompressed.");