gzip files about live-server HOT 8 CLOSED

@pavel The idea is very easy to view zipped size from browser inspector compared to the original. Just for convenience.

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@pavel I'm using 3d data for my data visualizer. And those data are gziped. I believed there're developers like me testing there project with gziped data.

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I think useful to me would be serving gzip or brotli compressed files, when they exist, when requests come for a file without an extension, similar to how http-server does.

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+1

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Why do you think this is useful with live-server?
live-server is supposed to be

a little development server with live reload capability.

Not sure why you need gzip for a development server.
Can you explain?

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I'll second this request - using live-server in an Aurelia, Typescript, System environment and have source files loaded individually, and vendor code bundled up and gzipped. This feature would take my biggest file, the bundle from ~2MB to ~500KB so this would be great in development.

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Useful feature, I'd like to see it too.

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^Yeah, certainly the premise that you wouldn't want compression in development is flaud. Plenty of people have bundles or something similar that they barely ever change in development - why not gzip them and see your code changes faster in development? Well that's what I do because I don't like waiting for my browser to load 300 files and 8MB everytime I change code so I bundle and compress all the stuff I'm not working on. I've been using http-server (another light server but with gzip, because it makes sense) with gulp live-reload and the live-reload chrome extension (have to turn it on every code session). Not ideal but allows live-reload with gzip!

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