Nginx Serving GZIP files

[chrisbag]

Context
I am running a react app and am trying to serve gzip compressed files (ideally pre-compressed during build time).
I am using those two buildpacks :

• heroku/nodejs
• heroku-buildpack-static: it is said in the doc that on the fly gzip compression is included by default (not gzip_static unfortunately), which is the case when you check the Nginx template file

What is happening
From the browser side, a query with Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br is included.
However the file served are not compressed on the fly (no size change, no gzip encoded in header response.

Have any of you managed to get gzip compression work ? Would you have any idea what I am doing wrong?
In the docs, it is mentioned to In case you have multiple buildpacks for the application you can ensure static rendering in Procfile with web: bin/boot.

Thanks a lot for your help 😀

[edmorley]

Hi

This buildpack is now deprecated and we are recommending people move the more actively maintained heroku-buildpack-nginx. For migration advice see here.

As such, I'm closing this issue out since we won't be making further changes to this buildpack.