MEAN Cookbook

Getting ready

To use compression on the assets served by our Express server, we will need to install a few modules:

• compression-webpack-plugin: A WebPack plugin to apply gzip compression to output assets
• express-static-gzip: Express middleware to serve gzip versions of assets, if they exist

npm install compression-webpack-plugin --save-devnpm install express-static-gzip --save

We will also do some more TypeScript conversion, so we'll want to install a few more type definitions for modules we are using in our application. In this case, we should install the type definitions for our Cheerio html parser library:

npm install @types/cheerio --save-dev

Not installing these type libraries can cause TypeScript compilation errors, as TypeScript ...