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Life & fun · July 4, 2012

Express CDN, deliver optimized and CDN-hosted assets in Node.js

:cloud: Node module for delivering optimized, minified, mangled, gzipped assets with Express and Amazon's CDN (S3/CloudFront) - ladjs/express-cdn

Express CDN, deliver optimized and CDN-hosted assets in Node.js launched on July 4, 2012 with 41 votes, #42 of 375 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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In plain words

Express CDN is a Node.js module that optimizes and delivers website assets through Amazon's CloudFront CDN and S3 storage. It automatically minifies, mangles, and gzips CSS and JavaScript files for faster delivery. The module integrates with Express applications to streamline asset management and reduce bandwidth costs by leveraging cloud-based content delivery.

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