Compression Streams are now supported on all browsers
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The Compression Streams API is for compressing and decompressing streams of data using the gzip or deflate (or deflate-raw) formats.
Using the built-in compression of the Compression Streams API, JavaScript applications do not need to include a compression library, making the download size of the application smaller. This useful API is now supported across all browsers.
Compress data
The following snippet shows how to compress data:
const readableStream = await fetch('lorem.txt').then(
(response) => response.body
);
const compressedReadableStream = readableStream.pipeThrough(
new CompressionStream('gzip')
);
Decompress data
To decompress, pipe a compressed stream through the decompression stream.
const decompressedReadableStream = compressedReadableStream.pipeThrough(
new DecompressionStream('gzip')
);
Demo
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Last updated 2023-11-02 UTC.
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