Algorithm "brotliCompress" is not found in "zlib" - node.js

Question

I have installed compression-webpack-plugin using this link and added Compression plugin in plugin section of webpack.config.js file as suggested here
When I run npm run build I am getting an error
Algorithm "brotliCompress" is not found in "zlib"
I am using node v8.11.3.
Here is the full error
C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\cli.js:93
throw err;
^
Error: Algorithm "brotliCompress" is not found in "zlib"
at new CompressionPlugin (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\compression-webpack-plugin\dist\index.js:171:15)
at Object. (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\webpack\webpack.config.prod.js:67:5)
at Module._compile (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\v8-compile-cache\v8-compile-cache.js:192:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\v8-compile-cache\v8-compile-cache.js:159:20)
at WEBPACK_OPTIONS (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\utils\convert-argv.js:114:13)
at requireConfig (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\utils\convert-argv.js:116:6)
at C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\utils\convert-argv.js:123:17
at Array.forEach ()
at module.exports (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\utils\convert-argv.js:121:15)
at yargs.parse (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\cli.js:71:45)
at Object.parse (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\node_modules\yargs\yargs.js:576:18)
at C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\cli.js:49:8
at Object. (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\cli.js:366:3)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object. (C:\Projects\ProjName\FrontEnd\node_modules\webpack\bin\webpack.js:156:2)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:191:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:612:3 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! ProjName#1.0.0 build: npm run buildsprite && webpack --config ./webpack/webpack.config.prod.js --colors npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the ProjName#1.0.0 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely
additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR!
C:\Users\2048537\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2021-12-29T09_59_46_237Z-debug.log
This is how I injected the plugin
new CompressionPlugin({
filename: "[path][base].br",
algorithm: "brotliCompress",
test: /\.(js|css|html|svg)$/,
compressionOptions: {
params: {
[zlib.constants.BROTLI_PARAM_QUALITY]: 11,
},
},
threshold: 10240,
minRatio: 0.8,
deleteOriginalAssets: false,
}),

Answer 1

Looks like webpack team needs to update https://webpack.js.org/plugins/compression-webpack-plugin/#using-brotli link.
I replace plugin code as below as below
new BrotliGzip({
asset: '[file].br[query]',
algorithm: "brotli",
test: /\.(js|css|html|svg)$/,
threshold: 10240,
minRatio: 0.8,
quality: 11
}),
where BrotliGzip is defined as
const BrotliGzip = require("brotli-gzip-webpack-plugin");
then it worked.