decompress a raw DEFLATE buffer or stream in node and the browser

It uses a subset of pako in the browser which is smaller than using the zlib-browserify module.

Install - Usage - License: Apache-2.0

npm install inflate-raw

var inflateRaw = require('inflate-raw')
inflateRaw(compressedBuffer, function (err, uncompressedBuffer) {
})

var inflateRawStream = require('inflate-raw/stream')
someCompressedStream
  .pipe(inflateRawStream())
  .pipe(elsewhere)

In the browser, the main inflate-raw entry point is blocking, so if you inflate a very large buffer the browser may hang. If it does, you may want to use something like webworkify and do the inflating in a Worker.

The inflate-raw/stream API is also synchronous but if the data comes streaming in in small chunks it will not noticeably lag the browser. It exposes a node-style stream transform interface.

Apache-2.0