Zlib's brotli methods are not supported

[pimterry]

The zlib module's new (11.7+) brotli methods are not supported. Docs here: https://nodejs.org/api/zlib.html#zlib_class_zlib_brotlicompress.

Presumably this is because Pako doesn't support them? It'd be good to list this in the readme though.

Notably it is possible to at least decode brotli on the web using https://www.npmjs.com/package/brotli. The encode part of that package only works in node though.

[devongovett]

I also maintain the brotli package. If you'd like to add support for brotli to browserify-zlib using a dependency on the brotli package, it would be a welcome PR!

The encoding part should work in the browser too - it's ported with emscripten. The decoding is hand ported.

[pimterry]

The encoding part should work in the browser too - it's ported with emscripten.

Sadly it doesn't, see foliojs/brotli.js#20.

In my app I do use brotli for decoding, but for encoding I use wasm-brotli instead. Works fine, I'm not sure how it compares in detail, but I suspect it won't play nicely anywhere without proper webassembly support.

[devongovett]

Seems fairly safe now, except for IE 11: https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm.

I'd happily accept PRs to fix the browser issues in brotli. A WASM compiled version would also be greatly appreciated.

[devongovett]

Also, I'm planning on transferring this repo to the browserify organization on GitHub so more maintainers can work on browserify-zlib.

[HeCorr]

Any update on this? it seems the brotli package has been abandoned and wasm-brotli is not working for me either in Webpack.

[pimterry]

I had issues with wasm-brotli so I built https://github.com/httptoolkit/brotli-wasm, does that work for you @HeCorr?

[HeCorr]

@pimterry Sorry, that's the package I tried (I miswrote the name). I couldn't make it work with Webpack 5 because the project forces me to use import and brotli-wasm seems to enforce the web version unless I use require and I couldn't import either pkg.node or pkg.bundler directly. I'll create an issue in your repo soon.

[HeCorr]

@pimterry Never mind, the errors I was originally having suddenly went away and I'm getting different errors now (from a different package).