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node-compress-buffer

A single-step Buffer compression library for Node.js.

Synopsis

    compress = require('compress-buffer').compress;
    uncompress = require('compress-buffer').uncompress;
    
    var rawData = fs.readFileSync("/etc/passwd");

    var compressed   = compress(rawData);
    var uncompressed = uncompress(compressed);

    uncompressed == rawData // true!

Why?

For the sake of the KISS principle. Most of the time you don't need a streaming compression, you need to compress an existing and already complete data.

Options

compress() takes two arguments: the data (either a String() or a Buffer()) and optional compression level which must be within 1..9. It returns compressed Buffer() or undefined on error.

uncompress() takes a single argument: the data (either a String() or a Buffer()) and returns uncompressed Buffer() or undefined on error.

Installation

npm install compress-buffer

npm install .

License

See LICENSE file. Basically, it's a kind of "do-whatever-you-want-for-free" license.

Thanks to

A lot of thanks for important suggestions goes to Konstantin Käfer who implemented a nice similar module node-zlib (https://github.com/kkaefer/node-zlib) earlier than me.
Oleg Kertanov.

Author

Egor Egorov me@egorfine.com