feat(compression): add ZSTD compression support for both Node.js and the browser #78
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Problem
As described in the issue I opened here: #77, the amount of compression algorithms that are described in the Parquet file format specification increased and now include the ZSTD method.
This compression algorithm is currently not supported by this package.
Solution
I quickly added ZSTD support by using an NPM module both compatible with the browser and Node.js called @oneidentity/zstd-js.
This PR simply calls the compression and decompression methods of the underlying ZSTD library.
One point of interest is that the Node.js use-case requires some type conversions due to the accepted input types of the ZSTD library.