HTTP Compression Middleware

http-compression is a lightweight Node.js library designed to add Gzip and Brotli compression capabilities to HTTP servers. Currently at stable version 1.1.3, it primarily functions as Express-style middleware but can also be integrated directly with Node.js's `http.createServer` primitives. The project maintains a steady, albeit infrequent, release cadence, with recent updates focused on dependency maintenance and minor feature enhancements. Key differentiators include its extremely small footprint (< 1kB) with no external dependencies, automatic detection of the best compression encoding (Gzip or Brotli) based on the `Accept-Encoding` header, and configurable compression levels, response size thresholds, and MIME type filtering. It requires Node.js version 18 or greater.