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.
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.
npm install --save tiny-bufferimport Buffer from 'tiny-buffer';
Buffer.from ( 'whatever' );MIT © Fabio Spampinato