GZIP components before Express server starts

[expressjs]

GZIP components before Express server starts

[dougwilson]

There are ways to do this, but this module is specifically only for compression of dynamic content (or I guess compressing static content over and over again--but production is better served by off-loading static file serving from Node.js).

I don't know the names of these modules, as I simply put static content on Akamai, but if you can find them and tell me, I can always list them in the README here for future users.

[ORESoftware]

Ok cool, yeah I can send you over some info that I discover on this. You should compress your static assets before putting them on Akamai :)

[dougwilson]

You should compress your static assets before putting them on Akamai :)

I do.

[ORESoftware]

cool - do you use a Node.js module for that compression? recommendation?

[dougwilson]

Just the gzip command line program from bash, unfortunately, which is why I don't know the name of any grunt/gulp plugins off-hand :(

[ORESoftware]

np, that helps thx

[ORESoftware]

readme:

http://www.quora.com/If-you-use-the-highest-compression-rating-with-gzip-does-it-take-longer-to-gunzip

[ORESoftware]

I was looking through the code for this module/lib, and I don't see any code in index.js that has to do with running the compression on a separate thread - where can I find that code? thx

[dougwilson]

It is part of Node.js C++ source code for the zlib module; you won't find it here. If you are interested in seeing that, you will need to ask over on the Node.js repo.

[ORESoftware]

ok thanks doug!