• Operating System: macOS Mojave (10.14.3)
• Node Version: 10.15.2
• NPM Version: 6.4.1
• webpack Version: 4.28.4
• webpack-defaults Version: N/A

Feature Proposal

Node 11.7.0 has native support for Brotli compression in its zlib module.

Feature Use Case

• Smaller files compared to Gzip:

  • credit: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/c11d3c20753445618b98d18be5ce037e/zopfli-vs.-brotli-vs.-gzip.html

• Not having to rely on external libraries like iltorb used in brotli-webpack-plugin