Archiver

Overview

Archiver (current: 8.0.0) streams ZIP and TAR archives to any writable stream: a file, an HTTP response or an upload. Version 8 changed the API, so snippets from older articles fail:

• The package is ESM only (import, not require).
• There is no archiver("zip") factory any more; use the classes ZipArchive, TarArchive and JsonArchive.
• It ships no type declarations of its own; for TypeScript install @types/archiver (8.x describes the v8 classes).
• archive.finalize() returns a promise.

The examples below ran on Node 24 with archiver 8.0.0 and the results were listed with unzip -l and tar tzf.

Instructions

Install