Compression

Compression can be applied globally to all outbound data of your app.

Value of Compression

It's best to first assess whether you need compression, two main incentives for compression are:

1. Reduce outbound data transfer costs.
2. Speed up response time for users.

For 1. Cloudflare does not charge outbound data transfer (it's free), but you might get charged a little more for compression CPU time.

For 2. Unless all your responses are bigger than 1M, it really does not make a difference.

Compress Middleware

Workery provides built-in middleware for compression.

import { CompressMiddleware } from "workery/middleware"

const app = new App<Env>({
	middleware: [
		CompressMiddleware("gzip"),
	]
})

Available options:

Name	Type
format	"deflate" | "deflate-raw" | "gzip"