CompressionStream

The CompressionStream interface of the Compression Streams API is an API for compressing a stream of data.

Constructor

CompressionStream(): Creates a new CompressionStream

Instance properties

CompressionStream.readable: Returns the ReadableStream instance controlled by this object.
CompressionStream.writable: Returns the WritableStream instance controlled by this object.

Examples

In this example a stream is compressed using gzip compression.

js

const compressedReadableStream = inputReadableStream.pipeThrough(
  new CompressionStream("gzip")
);

Specifications

Specification
Compression Streams # compression-stream

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