How to enable gzip on my node server using connect?

Question

I am trying to have my node server gzip the responses that it gives. I have the following:

const connect = require('connect');
const formDataRequests = ['communities/upsert'];
const app = connect();
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
...

I did some research (example https://alligator.io/nodejs/compression/ ) but that requires and express app. Does anyone know what module I can import/etc to get this to gzip the responses?

Answer 1

According to the connect docs, you can use the same compression middleware:

const compression = require('compression');
app.use(compression());

Answer 2

Use compression middleware

const compression = require('compression');
app.use(compression());

For serving, node gzip compression file use

app.get('*.js', function (req, res, next) {
    req.url = req.url + '.gz';
    res.set('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');
    res.set('Content-Type', 'text/javascript');
    // console.log('sent')
    next();
});
app.get('*.css', function (req, res, next) {
    req.url = req.url + '.gz';
    res.set('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');
    res.set('Content-Type', 'text/css');
    next();
});

Answer 3

Thank you @jcragun . We were able to get it working with:

const compression = require('compression');
app.use(compression());