React-native-sha NPM

React Native SHA library⚡⚡⚡

React-native-sha is a blazing fast⚡ solution for performing Secure Hashing Algorithm in React Native. Main reason this library is incredibly fast is because it provides bindings to a C++ implementation of the hashing algorithm through the Javascript Interface (JSI).

⚠️⚠️⚠️ This library currently has support for android only. IOS developers (mainly ObjC) needed to add support for IOS.

Features

Support for SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512
Direct bindings to C++ library, hence ⚡⚡⚡
Synchronous function calls
160x faster than current popular solutions
Supports compounded hashing of byte chunks

SHA256 sha256 = new SHA256();
while(data is available) {
  sha256.add(chunk, chunk size)
}

sha256.gethash(); //sha-256 of entire data

Benchmarks

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Installation

Installing react-native-sha with npm

  npm install react-native-sha

JSI is still in an experimental stage and hence a little workaround is required to link the library to your project. The facebook team is working on a feature, Turbo modules which will autolink your JSI modules.

import com.facebook.react.bridge.JSIModulePackage;
import com.reactnativesha.ShaJsiPackage;


public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication {

  private final ReactNativeHost mReactNativeHost =
      new ReactNativeHost(this) {

        ///....

        @Override
        protected String getJSMainModuleName() {
          return "index";
        }


        // Add this method to your MainApplication

        @Nullable
        @Override
        protected JSIModulePackage getJSIModulePackage() {
          return new ShaJsiPackage();
        }
      };

API Reference

All classes implement the Hash interface.

interface HashInterface {
  getHash: () => string;
  add: (buf: ArrayBuffer, bufSize: number) => void;
  reset: () => void;
  computeHash: (text: string) => string;
}

Function	Parameters	Description
`getHash()`	`none`	Returns the latest hash as string
`add()`	`buf: ArrayBuffer bufSize: number`	adds abitrary number of bytes as ArrayBuffer. Support for more byte formats coming soon
`reset()`	`none`	flushes added bytes out of memory
`computeHash()`	`text: string`	Accepts a string and returns its hash as a string

Examples

import { SHA256 } from 'react-native-sha';
import { Buffer } from 'buffer'; //needs to be installed in RN environment
import { data } from './test.json';

const sha256 = new SHA256();
sha256.computeHash('hash the world'); //33e9b48e6afb96bc6195f02102831b37c9cebbdacf9173df1881b9a7764444ae

const dataToProcess = Buffer.from(data, 'base64').buffer; //ArrayBuffer
sha256.add(dataToProcess, dataToProcess.byteLength);
sha256.getHash(); // hash of data

sha256.reset(); //flushes hash out of memory

SHA-3 with different variants

const sha3_256 = new SHA3('256');
sha3_256.computeHash('hash the world'); //623734226db189364e8a996cf05936b1b42cd8cfc9247040fd61d571

// same api as rest of the classes