The zlib module in Node.js provides compression and decompression functionality utilizing Gzip, Deflate/Inflate, and Brotli.
It can be accessed in your program with:
const zlib = require('zlib');
createInflateRaw() is a function of the zlib module that creates an InflateRaw object. This object is used to decompress a raw deflate stream.
We use the raw deflate function to compress data.
zlib.createInflateRaw( options )
options is an optional parameter used to provide options to the zlib classes.The createInflateRaw() method returns a new InflateRaw object.
In the program below, we will learn how to use the createInflateRaw method to decompress data.
First, we compress the input data using the deflateRaw method provided by the zlib module in
line 4.
Then, we create an InflateRaw object used to decompress the compressed input in line 11.
We use the toString method, which converts the decompressed data stream to text, and then we print it.
var zlib = require('zlib');var input = 'Educative Inc.'// Calling deflate function to compress datazlib.deflateRaw(input, function(err, data){if (err) {return console.log('err', err);}//The createInflateRaw method allows us to decompress the datavar decompress = zlib.createInflateRaw();decompress.write(data);decompress.on('data', function (data){console.log(data.toString());});});
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