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Support zstd

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
backend

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. First confirm that an official Node.js version supports zstd, then inspect this middleware's existing compression support and determine how zstd should be integrated and tested. Done means the middleware supports zstd through the official Node.js API.

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Description

enhancement future

Node.js will soon have official support for zstd. Once it is available in an official version, we can add support for it

Dominant language
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Merged PRs (30d)
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