Why Zlib is used in Node js ?

Zlib is Cross-platform data compression library. It was written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. In Node js, you can Zlib for Threadpool, HTTP requests, and responses compression and Memory Usage Tuning. In order to use zlib in node js, you need to install node-zlib package. After installation below is sample code to use Zlib.

var Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer;
var zlib = require('zlib');

var input = new Buffer('compressed input from Zlib');
var compressed = zlib.deflate(input);
var output = zlib.inflate(compressed);

Further Reading https://nodejs.org/api/zlib.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib