A single-step Buffer compression library for Node.js.

	compress = require('compress-buffer').compress;
	uncompress = require('compress-buffer').uncompress;
	
	var rawData = fs.readFileSync("/etc/passwd"),
      rawDataLen = rawData.length;

	var compressed   = compress(rawData);
	var uncompressed = uncompress(compressed, rawDataLen);

	uncompressed == rawData // true!

For the sake of the KISS principle. Most of the time you don't need a streaming compression, you need to compress an existing and already complete data.

compress() takes two arguments: the data (either a String() or a Buffer()) and optional compression level which must be within 1..9. It returns compressed Buffer() or undefined on error.

uncompress() takes a single argument: the data (either a String() or a Buffer()) and returns uncompressed Buffer() or undefined on error.

npm install compress-buffer

or

npm install .

See LICENSE file. Basically, it's a kind of "do-whatever-you-want-for-free" license.

• A lot of thanks for important suggestions goes to Konstantin Käfer who implemented a nice similar module node-zlib (https://github.com/kkaefer/node-zlib) earlier than me.
• Oleg Kertanov.

Egor Egorov me@egorfine.com