Serve assets with compression

Environment

• Operating System: macOS
• Node Version: v16.14.0
• Nitro Version: 0.2.1
• Package Manager: yarn@3.1.1

Reproduction

n/a

Describe the bug

It would be a nice addition to nitro if there is be a possibility to change the response of static assets. Then it would also be possible to implement content encoding like brotli or gzip.

Additional context

There does exist a discussion in the nuxt repo. https://github.com/nuxt/framework/discussions/3472

In addition to the discussion i already found the corresponding lines, which i changed in nuxt, in the nitro package:

https://github.com/unjs/nitro/blob/main/src/runtime/static.ts#L68 https://github.com/unjs/nitro/blob/main/src/rollup/plugins/public-assets.ts#L44

Logs

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Update 21.07.2022

I wrote a module which can handle the compression https://github.com/exreplay/nuxt-compression. This is still no official way and messes with the internal nitro code but there is no need to use patches.

[exreplay]

I found another way to make all this work without the need for a patch and everything else. I wrote a module real quick for everyone to use. You can find the package here https://github.com/exreplay/nuxt-compression. I already tried it locally and in my production environment with success.

[pi0]

Hi there and sorry it took long to add this feature.

Generally, I would recommend you use a CDN that can natively support compression. It is much more efficient to handle best compression with long term caching.

#449 adds a new option compressPublicAssets that can be optionally enabled to enable compression (feedback and improvements more than welcome 🙏🏼)

To enable this option for Nuxt 3, use edge channel (or wait for rc.9) and:

defineNuxtConfig({
 nitro: { compressPublicAssets: true }
})