2.1.1 • Published 9 months ago
tiny-buffer v2.1.1
Tiny Buffer
A tiny isomorphic implementation of a large subset of Node's Buffer.
If you need more like a full polyfill for an older version of Node's Buffer rather than something similar, modern, and with good performance, you should use feross/buffer
.
Differences
This implementation has the following differences and characteristics compared to Node's Buffer:
- It runs in the browser too.
- It still uses Node's Buffer under the hood for encoding and decoding in a Node environment, for greater performance.
- It uses DataView under the hood for reading and writing, for greater performance.
- It has no actual unsafe stuff, all buffers are zeroed.
- It assumes actually valid arguments are being passed to its methods.
- It assumes actually valid strings are used when encoding and decoding, if your strings are invalid you may get different results between the browser and Node.
- It exposes DataView's methods for reading and writing too, in addition to Node's Buffer's.
- The following funtions work just like in a
Uint8Array
, meaning they don't support strings:includes
,indexOf
,lastIndexOf
. - The following functions are not implemented:
readIntBE
,readIntLE
,readUIntBE
,readUIntLE
. - The following functions are not implemented:
writeIntBE
,writeIntLE
,writeUIntBE
,writeUIntLE
. - The following properties are not implemented:
parent
,poolSize
.
Other than that it should work identically, with good performance, everywhere.
Install
npm install --save tiny-buffer
Usage
import Buffer from 'tiny-buffer';
Buffer.from ( 'whatever' );
License
MIT © Fabio Spampinato