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Question - How is this different from JSZip? #12

Closed udondan closed 10 years ago

udondan commented 10 years ago

I'm using this module in my current project and I'm not having any issues. I just wonder how it is different from the original JSZip. The readme tells it is based on JSZip but not what is the difference or why I should use this instead of the original JSZip.

daraosn commented 10 years ago

This project is more than 2 years old, by that time I couldn't use JSZip directly on a node application, the same way I'd do it on a front-end app. node-zip just wraps around a global JSZip variable to be used directly in the app and also includes a CLI. So yeah, it's just a port and I'm maintaining it for legacy reasons because lots of projects are using it. Feel free to use JSZip directly.

udondan commented 10 years ago

Ah, thanks for the explanation! I already guessed it might be related to JSZip previously not being available for node.