Support Zstd

[muuvmuuv]

Facebook created zstd to compress stuff in favour of gzip and brotli (Google). It could be added like Brotli as far as I remember when I tried but haven't compiled it for a while.

• https://github.com/facebook/zstd
• https://github.com/tokers/zstd-nginx-module
• We need an nginx binding facebook/zstd#409

[anndix]

Does zstd work with regular browsers ? I apologise for my ignorance.

Thanks

[muuvmuuv]

Not yet for browsers. Here is an interesting read from "Can I use": Fyrd/caniuse#4065

• Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=zstd
• Chromium: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1246971
• Safari: no tracker

Mostly it's used for applications that are made in-house where you have control over data transport. We would like to use it for our 50k+ JSON files, since we can't split them yet but can improve data speed with zstd :)

[romulasry]

https://www.daniel.priv.no/tools/zstd-browser-test/