Gzipping with Express

[Rodrigo Alves Vieira]

Hello there, I am developing my personal website using Express to learn more about Node.js and this awesome web framework and using YSlow to optimize some stuff. Lately, I was trying to gzip my files but don't know what middleware I can use.. is there any?

I searched in the Express web site and didn't find a solution, also I searched this group but the code I've found must have been deprecated...

My express version is 2.0.0beta2

Thanks!

[Laurie Harper]

Connect (which Express is built on top of) used to include a gzip middleware, but it's gone in Connect 1.0 / Express 2.0. You could look at the old implementation in Connect, but IIRC the reason they were dropped was because they were too inefficient to be of benefit.
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Laurie Harper
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[Rodrigo Alves Vieira]

hmmm, thanks. I'll watch connect out, perhaps there will be some future, more efficient implementation.