I need to zip up a set of files in Node. Why isn't there a drop-dead simple API for doing this. Here's the pseudo code for how I'd like to do it. If you have a suggestion you can comment on the gist. #
Since then I solved the problem, creating an NPM package, davezip (not released yet), that has the API I want, built on the archiver package. #
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