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A lightweight JavaScript MIME type library.
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The `lighter-mime` module combines speed and support by immediately loading a
basic set of MIME types, and lazily loading a full set.
From your project directory, install and save as a dependency:
```bash
npm install --save lighter-mime
```
The `lighter-mime` package exports an object whose keys are lowercase file
extensions and values are MIME types.
The basic mapping is pretty simple:
```js
var mime = require('lighter-mime')
console.log(mime)
//> { css: 'text/css',
// gif: 'image/gif',
// html: 'text/html',
// ico: 'image/x-icon',
// jpg: 'image/jpg',
// js: 'application/javascript',
// json: 'application/json',
// png: 'image/png',
// svg: 'image/svg+xml',
// txt: 'text/plain',
// xml: 'application/xml' }
```
Set or overwrite a MIME type mapping for a given extension.
```js
var mime = require('lighter-mime')
console.log(mime.js)
//> 'application/javascript'
// Let's consider JavaScript to be text.
mime.set('js', 'text/javascript')
console.log(mime.js)
//> 'text/javascript'
```
Load the comprehensive list immediately (and return the mapping).
```js
var mime = require('lighter-mime').load()
console.log(mime.docx)
//> 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document'
```
Delay loading the comprehensive list for a specified number of milliseconds,
rather than the default 1 millisecond.
* [Contributing](//github.com/lighterio/lighter-mime/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
* [License (ISC)](//github.com/lighterio/lighter-mime/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
* [Change Log](//github.com/lighterio/lighter-mime/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
* [Roadmap](//github.com/lighterio/lighter-mime/blob/master/ROADMAP.md)
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