zip compression during prod deployment

[tpruthi]

Is there any way to add gulp-zip task in the list of build.prod task, so the files generated in dist/prod
will be zipped and the zip file can be deployed directly to nginx or any other server.

[TheDonDope]

We kind of have this, but not actually for building the artifacts, but at runtime, when using npm run serve.prod , see here: #1092

[mgechev]

@tpruthi usually your web server is the one which performs the compression. In case of some compression algorithms it can be based on the browser which did the request.