A demonstration of compression the data at frontend in browser using web worker

This file demonstrate the use of web worker to compress the data. We want to send a very big data to our backend. We will send this data to web worker to get it compressed as we can't do compression on the main thread. Worker will compress the data and return it here, so that we can send it to backend

Running demo

1. Clone this repository

2. Run npm install

3. Install http-server to serve the file using (Ignore if already installed):

   npm install -g http-server

4. Move to the directory, where you cloned this repository and run this command to start the server

   http-server .

   It will give the output like

   Starting up http-server, serving .
   Available on:
     http://127.0.0.1:8080
     http://192.168.1.124:8080
   Hit CTRL-C to stop the server
   

5. Open http://127.0.0.1:8080 to access the demo.

6. You will see two events call in the network panel, check the request size of both the request.

Setup

1. Run grunt to build the files again if you have changed the worker.js file.

Copyright and license

The MIT license (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Hemkaran Raghav

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