How do I unzip a .zip/.rar file in Node.js into a folder

Question

I am using zlib along with fstream now for zipping and sending to the client, Now I need to unzip an archive(which may contains sub folders) into a folder maintaining the folder structure. How do I do that?

Answer 1

There are plenty of node modules that can do this for you. One of them is node-unzip. You can extract a .zip file to a directory as simple as this.

fs.createReadStream('path/to/archive.zip').pipe(unzip.Extract({ path: 'output/path' }));

Further reading: https://github.com/EvanOxfeld/node-unzip