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pedrotorres
pedrotorres

Reputation: 1232

Node lite-server gzip file

I am using lite-server locally for angular2 dev. I compressed all my js into a min.js file with 1.7Mb which is working fine. Now I want to squeeze it to a gzip file with 280Kb which is much smaller. The bad part is that Chrome is downloading the file with content-type "octet-stream" instead of "application/javascript" and the Content-Encoding "gzip". Is there any simple way of making this work?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1352

Answers (1)

robertklep
robertklep

Reputation: 203286

Not very familiar with lite-server, but since it seems to accept Express middleware you should be able to use the compression middleware:

// lite-server-config.js
module.exports = {
  ...
  server : {
    middleware : { 1 : require('compression')() }
    ...
  }
};

That will take care of the compression for you, so you don't have to gzip the files manually. It will also set the correct headers.

Upvotes: 3

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