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Node.js - ZLIB

Prashant Surya | Nov 19, 2019 | Views: 11

Description:

What is ZLIB in Node.js?

Zlib is a module in Node.js responsible for compression and decompression (Like Zip and UnZip) functionality.

It does so by using Gzip and Deflate/Inflate, as well as Brotli.

How to import Zlib?

const zlib = require('zlib');

The process of Compressing/decompressing a stream (such as a file) can be achieved by piping the source stream data through a zlib stream into a destination stream.

Example to Compress a File using Node.js ZLIB:

Let's see a simple example of Node.js ZLIB module to compress a file "input.txt" into "input.txt.gz".


const zlib = require('zlib');  
const gzip = zlib.createGzip();
const fs = require('fs');
const inp = fs.createReadStream('input.txt');
const out = fs.createWriteStream('input.txt.gz');
inp.pipe(gzip)
  .on('error', () => {
    // handle error
  })
  .pipe(out)
  .on('error', () => {
    // handle error
  });

Example to decompress a File using Node.js ZLIB:

Let's see a simple example of Node.js ZLIB module to decompress a file "input.txt.gz" into "input2.txt".


const zlib = require('zlib');  
const uzip = zlib.createUnzip();
const fs = require('fs');
const inp = fs.createReadStream('input.txt.gz');
const out = fs.createWriteStream('unzipinput.txt');
inp.pipe(uzip)
  .on('error', () => {
    // handle error
  })
  .pipe(out)
  .on('error', () => {
    // handle error
  });

Using deflate it is also possible to compress or decompress data in a single step:

Example:

const input = '.................................';
zlib.deflate(input, (err, buffer) => {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(buffer.toString('base64'));
  } else {
    // handle error
  }
});
const buffer = Buffer.from('eJzT0yMAAGTvBe8=', 'base64');
zlib.unzip(buffer, (err, buffer) => {
  if (!err) {
    console.log(buffer.toString());
  } else {
    // handle error
  }
});

Reference:

To understand Zlib in more deep, go to official page on Node.js

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Prashant Surya

Software developer at Uniserve Data Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

I am a software developer, freelancer and trainer working on technologies likes. MEAN stack, MERN Stack, ASP.NET full stack, WebRTC, socket.io ,PWA, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, SEO, responsive UI/UX designing... having 7 years of experience in development in multiple domains like, eCommerce, RTA, capital markets, education, real estate...