Option to disable the compression for the webpack dev server

[joshiste]

Currently the compression is always activated for the webpack dev server. Currently this is a problem if you want to proxy chunked responses for SSE.
I'd appreciate an option to disable the compression of the dev server, as I currently found no other solution to this problem (more details chimurai/http-proxy-middleware#371).

[dlasky]

running into the same thing, it doesnt seem like there is a great workaround besides hardcoding this:

create-react-app/packages/react-scripts/config/webpackDevServer.config.js

Line 42 in 05f7924

compress: true,

but it would be nice if this was an ENV or could be overridden in setupProxy if present

edit: after quite a bit of digging, it looks like the compress() middleware honors cache-control: no-transform headers so its possible to override the proxy to send that which avoids the compression and thus the buffering/timeout behavior.

[jcmoore]

FYI @joshiste , spent some time earlier looking for work arounds with @dlasky

If you can send a Cache-Control header with no-transform, you can avoid compression.

It may be that adding some middleware in this style (with no-transform of course) will be sufficient.

[heyimalex]

I’m going to close this since there appears to be a decent workaround, let me know if you think it should be reopened!