A tool for compressing files by means of Brotli and Gzip algorithms, works seamlessly with many CLI UI tools (Angular CLI, Vue CLI, create-react-app).
The flexibility of the algorithms could be extended by many options flags, including the gzip-level
, gzip-strategy
, gzip-memory-level
, brotli-param-mode
, brotli-quality
, brotli-size-hint
. All flags can be declared via ENV variables (ENV variables have higher priority over CLI arguments).
You can enable verbose
mode for better visual representation, customize your file output using output-file-format
or compress with incremental
flag if you have a lot of files that rarely change.
By default gzipper
compress all the files but you could use include
or exclude
options for better flexibility.
- Globally
npm i gzipper -g
- Locally to
devDependencies
.
npm i gzipper -D
Usage: gzipper [options] [command]
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
compress|c [options] <path> [outputPath] compress selected path and optionally set output directory
cache manipulations with cache
help [command] display help for command
Usage: gzipper compress|c [options] <path> [outputPath]
compress selected path and optionally set output directory
Options:
-v, --verbose detailed level of logs
--incremental (beta) incremental compression
-e, --exclude <extensions> exclude file extensions from compression, example: jpeg,jpg...
-i, --include <extensions> include file extensions for compression, example: js,css,html...
-t, --threshold <number> exclude assets smaller than this byte size. 0 (default)
--level <number> compression level 6 (default), 0 (no compression) - 9 (best compression)
--memory-level <number> amount of memory which will be allocated for compression 8 (default), 1 (minimum memory) - 9 (maximum memory)
--strategy <number> compression strategy 0 (default), 1 (filtered), 2 (huffman only), 3 (RLE), 4 (fixed)
--deflate enable deflate compression
--brotli enable brotli compression, Node.js >= v11.7.0
--brotli-param-mode <value> default, text (for UTF-8 text), font (for WOFF 2.0 fonts)
--brotli-quality <number> brotli compression quality 11 (default), 0 - 11
--brotli-size-hint <number> expected input size 0 (default)
--output-file-format <value> output file format with default artifacts [filename].[ext].[compressExt]
--remove-larger remove compressed files if they larger than uncompressed originals
--skip-compressed skip compressed files if they already exist
-h, --help display help for command
Usage: gzipper cache [options] [command]
manipulations with cache
Options:
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
purge purge cache storage
size size of cached resources
help [command] display help for command
-
Globally usage
gzipper compress [options] <path> [outputPath]
-
Locally usage
- Add module to scripts in your package.json and run
compress
commandnpm run compress
.
"scripts": { "gzipper": "gzipper", "compress": "gzipper compress ./dist" }
- Use
npx
command.
"scripts": { "compress": "npx gzipper compress ./dist" }
- Add module to scripts in your package.json and run
-
UI build tools (e.g. Angular CLI)
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./dist"
}
- Compress files to a certain directory
./gzipped
(folders structure insidedist
will be saved)
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./dist ./gzipped"
}
- Compress files to very deep folder
./very/deep/folder
(all folders will be automatically created if not exist)
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./dist ./very/deep/folder"
}
- Compress a single file
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build && gzipper compress ./dist/awesomeness.txt"
}
const { Compress } = require('gzipper');
const gzip = new Compress('./test', './dist', { verbose: true });
try {
const files = await gzip.run();
console.info('Compressed files: ', files);
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
}
- Run multiple algorithms at the same time.
const { Compress } = require('gzipper');
const gzip = new Compress('./test');
const brotli = new Compress('./test', null, { brotli: true });
try {
const [gzipFiles, brotliFiles] = await Promise.all([
gzip.run(),
brotli.run(),
]);
console.info('Compressed gzip files: ', gzipFiles);
console.info('Compressed brotli files: ', brotliFiles);
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
}
Option | ENV |
---|---|
--incremental (beta) |
GZIPPER_INCREMENTAL (0 or 1) |
-v, --verbose |
GZIPPER_VERBOSE (0 or 1) |
-e, --exclude <extensions> |
GZIPPER_EXCLUDE |
-i, --include <extensions> |
GZIPPER_INCLUDE |
-t, --threshold <number> |
GZIPPER_THRESHOLD |
--level <number> |
GZIPPER_LEVEL |
--memory-level <number> |
GZIPPER_MEMORY_LEVEL |
--strategy <number> |
GZIPPER_STRATEGY |
--deflate |
GZIPPER_DEFLATE (0 or 1) |
--brotli |
GZIPPER_BROTLI (0 or 1) |
--brotli-param-mode <value> |
GZIPPER_BROTLI_PARAM_MODE |
--brotli-quality <number> |
GZIPPER_BROTLI_QUALITY |
--brotli-size-hint <number> |
GZIPPER_BROTLI_SIZE_HINT |
--output-file-format <value> |
GZIPPER_OUTPUT_FILE_FORMAT |
--remove-larger |
GZIPPER_REMOVE_LARGER (0 or 1) |
--skip-compressed |
GZIPPER_SKIP_COMPRESSED (0 or 1) |
ENV Variables have higher priority over CLI arguments.
gzipper c --incremental ./dist
A special type of compression that significantly decreases the time of compression (on the second run) if you have a lot of big and rarely updated files. It creates a .gzipper
folder with pre-compressed files (cache
) and config that stores all necessary metadata (.gzipperconfig
).
gzipper c --verbose ./dist
Get more information about executed work. (Could increase time of compression because of gathering additional metrics)
gzipper c --exclude jpeg,png,ico ./dist
Exclude file extensions from compression (compression extensions like gz, zz, br, etc. excluded by default), example: jpeg,jpg...
gzipper c --include jpeg,png,ico ./dist
Include file extensions for compression(exclude others), example: js,css,html...
gzipper c --threshold 900 ./dist
Exclude assets smaller than this byte size. 0 (default)
gzipper c --level 8 ./dist
Compression level 6 (default), 0 (no compression) - 9 (best compression)
gzipper c --memory-level 2 ./dist
Amount of memory which will be allocated for compression 8 (default), 1 (minimum memory) - 9 (maximum memory)
gzipper c --strategy 3 ./dist
Compression strategy 0 (default), 1 (filtered), 2 (huffman only), 3 (RLE), 4 (fixed)
gzipper c --deflate ./dist
Enable deflate compression.
gzipper c --brotli ./dist
Enable brotli compression, Node.js >= v11.7.0.
gzipper c --brotli-param-mode text ./dist
Available values are default, text (for UTF-8 text), font (for WOFF 2.0 fonts), only for --brotli
gzipper c --brotli-quality 10 ./dist
Brotli compression quality 11 (default), 0 - 11, only for --brotli
gzipper c --brotli-size-hint 6 ./dist
Expected input size 0 (default), only for --brotli
Output file format with artifacts, default format: [filename].[ext].[compressExt]
. Where: filename
-> name of your file, ext
-> file extension, compressExt
-> compress extension (.gz, .br, etc), hash
-> uniq hash.
Example: Expected project structure.
img
rabbit.jpg
cat.jpg
js
main.js
modules.js
xml
main.xml
index.js
gzipper c --output-file-format [filename].[compressExt].[ext] ./dist
img
rabbit.gz.jpg
cat.gz.jpg
js
main.gz.js
modules.gz.js
xml
main.gz.xml
index.gz.js
gzipper c --output-file-format test-[filename]-[hash].[compressExt].[ext] ./dist
img
test-rabbit-b4564011-ba7c-4bd6-834d-bf6c7791b7d4.gz.jpg
test-cat-739c7d7d-53ca-4f8e-912c-bad3b2b515a9.gz.jpg
js
test-main-4cc35dbd-36f7-4889-9f41-4d93e7a25bef.gz.js
test-modules-bce90cbd-5bf2-43c2-8b61-33aa1599b704.gz.js
xml
test-main-a90fa10e-f7a4-4af9-af67-f887bb96f98b.gz.xml
test-index-067c1e2d-0e12-4b57-980b-97c880c24d57.gz.js
gzipper c --output-file-format [filename]-[hash]-[filename]-tmp.[ext].[compressExt] ./dist
img
rabbit-b4564011-ba7c-4bd6-834d-bf6c7791b7d4-rabbit-tmp.jpg.gz
cat-739c7d7d-53ca-4f8e-912c-bad3b2b515a9cat-tmp.jpg.gz
js
main-4cc35dbd-36f7-4889-9f41-4d93e7a25bef-main-tmp.js.gz
modules-bce90cbd-5bf2-43c2-8b61-33aa1599b704-modules-tmp.js.gz
xml
main-a90fa10e-f7a4-4af9-af67-f887bb96f98b-main-tmp.xml.gz
index-067c1e2d-0e12-4b57-980b-97c880c24d57-index-tmp.js.gz
Removes compressed files that larger than uncompressed originals in your directory.
Ignores compressed files that have already exist in your directory. Works only with default --output-file-format
.
Command |
---|
purge |
size |
gzipper cache purge
Removes all pre-compressed files from cache
which was generated via --incremental
flag.
gzipper cache size
Returns the size of all pre-compiled files from cache
.
I appreciate every contribution, just fork the repository and send the pull request with your changes.
- Node.js >= 10