usability inside browser

[nylki]

Hi there, Love your tool so far! I just discovered crunchme because I'd like to compress some JS further beyond what uglify-es/js can do.

However it seems like the compressed js crunchme creates has to be run via a node environment. At least it seemed that way for a quick test I made, where the output was using nodes zlib. After that, I looked around a bit in the algo directory and discovered there where a few other algorithms you included that appear to have no dependency on node (no require()).

So my questions are:

• can I use crunchme with only those other algs (lz77, lzw) that don't rely on node to generate compressed code that runs in the browser?

• if that is the case, how would you recommend excluding the algorithms that require node/zlib. By hand in source, or is there a command line flag present?

• could I still use the other algos by push the code that has require in it through eg. browserify, or webpack or would they become to huge to make a difference in the end?

I'll try to experiment a bit more with crunchme either way. Thanks for the tool!

[nylki]

After a bit more fiddling around, it seems like the other ones require node as well ( because the are using Buffer).