On: My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%

[jsheard]

I wonder if it would make more sense to pursue Brotli at this point, Node has had it built-in since 10.x so it should be pretty ubiquitous by now. It would require an update to NPM itself though.

[silverwind → jsheard]

+1 to brotli. Newly published packages could use brotli by default, so old ones stay compatible.

[canucker2016 → silverwind]

Here's the Brotli supporter's blog post about adding Brotli support to NPM packages.

https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package...

and the related HN discussion from that time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754489