adm-zip

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A Javascript implementation of zip for nodejs. Allows user to create or extract zip files both in memory or to/from disk

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A Javascript implementation of zip for nodejs. Allows user to create or extract zip files both in memory or to/from disk

ADM-ZIP for NodeJS

ADM-ZIP is a pure JavaScript implementation for zip data compression for NodeJS.

Installation

With npm do:

$ npm install adm-zip

Electron file system support described below.

What is it good for?

The library allows you to:

decompress zip files directly to disk or in memory buffers
compress files and store them to disk in .zip format or in compressed buffers
update content of/add new/delete files from an existing .zip

Dependencies

There are no other nodeJS libraries that ADM-ZIP is dependent of

Examples

Basic usage

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For more detailed information please check out the wiki.

Electron original-fs

ADM-ZIP has supported electron original-fs for years without any user interractions but it causes problem with bundlers like rollup etc. For continuing support original-fs or any other custom file system module. There is possible specify your module by fs option in ADM-ZIP constructor.

Example:

javascript

const AdmZip = require("adm-zip");
const OriginalFs = require("original-fs");

// reading archives
const zip = new AdmZip("./my_file.zip", { fs: OriginalFs });
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