From the questions found here:
Here is a clone like to an example app:
Did I ever mention I dislike using javascript with the fire of ten thousand suns?
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Docs are in the app, it’s not that big.
Why it is useful:
- Trades cpu cycles / time for bandwidth.
- Uses the client browser to do the work so the server does not get slammed.
- Lets you keep large client files in storage without you having to do the work.
- Allows less transmission time for getting information from the server module / tables to the client browser, the inflation/decompression is orders of magnitude faster than the compression part, so you might have some large file/object already storred compressed you want the client browser to use, but the time and bandwidth of transmitting the large file / structure is slower than having the client decompress it on the other end.
- Compression is good for your health.
