Preparing for system design interviews?  Try bugzed.com →

shrink-ray-current: Node.js Compression Middleware

JSON →
library 4.1.3 ·javascript
verified Jun 17, 2026

Shrink-ray-current is a Node.js compression middleware designed for Express/Connect applications, providing advanced content encoding capabilities beyond standard gzip. Currently stable at version 4.1.3 (last updated April 2021), it's a maintained fork of the abandoned `shrink-ray` package, ensuring its dependencies are up-to-date. Its key differentiators include built-in support for Brotli and Zopfli (the latter specifically for asynchronous compression of static assets), alongside traditional deflate and gzip. The middleware leverages ETag caching to significantly boost performance for static files, claiming to be 3x faster and using a quarter of the CPU time compared to the standard `compression` middleware in benchmarks, by utilizing higher quality compression algorithms for cached content. Releases appear to be driven by dependency updates or minor bug fixes rather than a fixed schedule.

total hits 14
actors 5 distinct systems
last hit 18d ago AhrefsBot
GPTBot
4
Amazonbot
4
Script
1

top countries 🇺🇸 United States · 🇨🇦 Canada · 🇫🇷 France · 🇩🇪 Germany