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Please add latest brotli 1.1.0 bindings with compression dictionary support #52250
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@nodejs/zlib it looks like this just needs exposing in the API JS side
I can work on this :-)
Reacted by nhelfman, Ximing and Jurj Andrei George@juanarbol is this in flight somewhere, would love to poke at a dev branch or something 🤔 Poking at the compression dictionary transport tech and built in bindings would make this a lot easier 😅
Happy to help out with the change too 🥳
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@juanarbol / @avivkeller is there any update on this elsewhere? Seems like this was planned
Can we reopen this issue? We're looking into using compression dictionaries at Pinterest and would love to see this natively supported in Node.
Reacted by Alex Coleman, Pascal Vos, pascal vos and Juan José@valiantvu I built this out at Notion, I will note that brotli based compression is slow enough that even with CDN caching doing it on the fly wasn't great. Doing zstd based dictionary compression is 10/10 though, unfortunately there isn't good node support for that either 😆
I ended up building a rust-based lambda for dictionary compresison which was fronted by {insert_cdn_here}. It did zstd dictionary compression on the fly and was lightweight enough to be super quick. I'd suggest some kind of system similar to that if you're exploring options here.
Can we reopen this issue? We're looking into using compression dictionaries at Pinterest and would love to see this natively supported in Node.
Hey @valiantvu, do you think Pinterest can sponsor this? If so, feel free to reach out in my email.
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What is the problem this feature will solve?
Current node brotli compression does not support compression dictionary.
The
dictionaryoption only supported for deflate/inflate according to documentation:This prevents using node.js directly to create compression dictionary diffs at build time which is necessary in order to adopt Compression dictionary transport
What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?
Add latest code/binaries and binding to compression options to support latest brotli (https://github.com/google/brotli) version 1.1.0 so that we can use the
dictionaryoption in brotli.cc: @benjamingr
What alternatives have you considered?
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