GZips and GUnzips via a buffer rather than a stream
The nodejs ZLib library is great when streaming compressed or uncompressed data, however, if you would like to store this data locally, (maybe for caching?) it is rather difficult. gzip-buffer will un/compress your data and callback with the results in a buffer.
npm install gzip-buffer
var gbuf = require('gzip-buffer');
gbuf.gzip('some data', function(zipped){
gbuf.gunzip(zipped, function(unzipped){
console.log(unzipped.toString());
});
});
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