Node.js: Gzip compression?

Question

Am I wrong in finding that Node.js does no gzip compression and there are no modules out there to perform gzip compression? How can anyone use a web server that has no compr

Answer 1

Even if you're not using express, you can still use their middleware. The compression module is what I'm using:

var http = require('http')
var fs = require('fs')
var compress = require("compression")
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
  var noop = function(){}, useDefaultOptions = {}
  compress(useDefaultOptions)(request,response,noop) // mutates the response object

  response.writeHead(200)
  fs.createReadStream('index.html').pipe(response)
}).listen(1337)