📦 DecompressionStream with gzipped text Example

Working code for DecompressionStream, which is a standard Web API.

DecompressionStream is already available in Baseline since 2023.

Features

• 📦 DecompressionStream (Web API)
• 📝 plain text source file
• 🗜️ gzip
• 📄 single file

🛑 Warning

Before using CompressionStreams think about these compression topics:

• some compressed contents are single files,
• some of them can contain multiple files,
• others can contain folder structures with files,
• the algorithms can differ,
• streams and files are also different.

Installation

Install http-server globally:

npm install --global http-server

Usage

1. Run inside src folder: http-server
2. Open browser at: http://127.0.0.1:8080/
3. Select the welcome.txt.gz file from data folder and check its contents with this app.

License

Read the LICENSE file.

References

• WHATWG - Compression Living Standard
• MDN - DecompressionStream
• MDN - Compression Streams API
• Compression Streams are now supported on all browsers
• Compression and decompression in the browser with the Compression Streams API
• Writing a simple browser zip file decompressor with CompressionStreams
• S. Vazzoler: CompressionStream JS API
• A. Martel: How to use the native Compression Streams API to compress and decompress strings in JavaScript
• CompressionStream now behaves differently in Node.js, compared to browsers

History

I started the project on 28th of May, 2025.