?️⚡Compress files on the client side super fast using WASM. Supports GZIP, ZLIB...

️ :zap: wasm-flate

The fastest compression and decompression in the browser.

Installation

npm i wasm-flate

Info

Docs - get API reference and flate functions.

Examples - Examples compressing in browser, sending to node server and decompressing... really fast!

Compared to Pako

Test pako vs wasm-flate in your browsers here

In Chrome on my MacBook Pro, we see that pako takes about 143 ms where wasm-flate only takes about 21 ms. This is 6.8x faster.

Why use wasm-flate

WASM npm library for fast (de)compression

• Uses WASM
• As fast as C or Rust implementation
• Works in all browsers
• GZIP supported
• ZLIB supported
• DELFATE supported

Uses

• Shipping compressed data from server and decompress in browser
• Shipping compressed data to server by compressing in browser
• Better UX for mobile (fast decompress - slow data fetch)
• Better UX for people with sparse networks
• Less resource use on server side
• Decreased storage need
• Leveraging growing WASM ecosystem

This package allows you to quickly compress and decompress data in the browser. The process is simple and optmized to execute as fast as your browser can run.

Compress

Pass a string or Uint8Array to the compression function you choose. The contents will be compressed and encoded to base64. The returned value will be a base64 encoded string.

Decompress

Pass a base64 string of the compressed data and it will return a base64 decompressed value.

Example Node use

var flate = require('wasm-flate');

var data = "THIS IS EXAMPLE DATA TO COMPRESS"
var compressed_data = flate.zlib_encode(data)
var original_data = flate.zlib_decode(compressed_data)

Compressing Data

var data = "THIS IS EXAMPLE DATA TO COMPRESS"
var compressed_data = flate.zlib_encode(data)
// this data is zlib compressed and base64 encoded

var data = "THIS IS EXAMPLE DATA TO COMPRESS"
var compressed_data = flate.gzip_encode(data)
// this data is gzip compressed and base64 encoded

var data = "THIS IS EXAMPLE DATA TO COMPRESS"
var compressed_data = flate.deflate_encode(data)
// this data is deflate compressed and base64 encoded

Decompressing Data

var original_data = flate.zlib_decode("eNrtlEtOAzEMhvc9RTXrLpw4jmMu0EMgFk7GQQjRSjCgSlXvThgG1KpqeUgskOpN/Ppt61tkO5vPu14H7a7m2+a3aHjU3p5afD3G8yk/1vRh/bwalja0cuco+kARE/lucdRz92JjEzgiiZEAE0y23337Pgs2xbhCzOo5o5GnUvpamrSYSotbrooztQPxtAQ2Kk6sFvbcjvK+AHt1JMFqnzU5TqoYoU/76mF9b6vlx36DzOK5BK0eOVLJ5NAFBQPyTiUGqmBejyd8HgHftG6asFt8QVgkCgglCKcBMzI7hCRB4t/xdQYphkwxclOElBO7LD2IQ8SqVjBgqLH+N77nuPoLzx/zxOTPMqWAGC5cf/sP4Gm2Cbj9ANzYBrzwPeQ7vjezN2/3Cpfxnx4=")

output:

{
  "data": {
    "trades": [
      {
        "amountGet": "15624563852",
        "amountGive": "10155966503800000000",
        "get": "0xce7f06ba27b3e525ccdfc559cea9e523e5f91eae",
        "give": "0xa919efc72756222c072a1594efdba8178aa360d8",
        "tokenGet": "0xe0b7927c4af23765cb51314a0e0521a9645f0e2a",
        "tokenGive": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
      }
  ], "..."
}

Dealing with RAW data

var flate = require('wasm-flate');
var data = new Uint8Array( Buffer.from('David Richard Blyn Holtz') );
var comp = flate.deflate_encode_raw(data)
var decomp = flate.deflate_decode_raw(comp)
JSON.stringify(data) === JSON.stringify(decomp)

Example Browser Usage

Just load the following script tag into your html page. You should have access to flate in the console now.

<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/bootstrap.js"></script>

Building with Rust ️

In order to build the wasm files with Rust, you'll need to clone the repo and run wasm-pack with nodejs as the target. This will create a set of files in pkg that can be used as a node module.

git clone https://github.com/drbh/wasm-flate.git
cd wasm-flate
wasm-pack build --target nodejs

You should have the following new files

pkg/
├── LICENSE-APACHE
├── LICENSE-MIT
├── README.md
├── wasm-flate.d.ts
├── wasm-flate.js
├── wasm-flate_bg.d.ts
├── wasm-flate_bg.js
├── wasm-flate_bg.wasm
└── package.json

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