How To Zip And Download Files In Nodejs
Jan 24, 2018 by Pankaj Kumar
In this article, We will see how to create zip in nodejs express application. Since many times we need to download zip file in our web application.
Its very easy to do with nodejs express. Have a look on the below code snippet.
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3000;
const AdmZip = require('adm-zip');
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
const zip = new AdmZip();
zip.addLocalFile("./file1.txt");
zip.addLocalFile("./file2.js");
zip.addLocalFile("./file3.ts");
const downloadName = `${Date.now()}.zip`;
const data = zip.toBuffer();
res.set('Content-Type','application/octet-stream');
res.set('Content-Disposition',`attachment; filename=${downloadName}`);
res.set('Content-Length',data.length);
res.send(data);
})
app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Server is running over port ${port}!`))
Conclusion
So in this article, We learn how to create zip and download it with nodejs.
That’s all for now. Thank you for reading and I hope this artible will be very helpful to understand how to create zip and download it with nodejs.
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