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base64-u8array-arraybuffer

v1.0.3

Published

A simple, lightweight, and efficient JavaScript library to manage encoding/decoding between base64 data, Uint8Arrays, and ArrayBuffers

Downloads

166

Readme

base64 <-> Uint8Array <-> ArrayBuffer

Build Status npm version Coverage Status

📦 A simple, lightweight, and efficient JavaScript library to manage encoding and decoding between base64 data, Uint8Arrays, and ArrayBuffers. This library perfectly works with Node.js and the browser.

  • < 900 bytes gzipped!
  • No dependency
  • Accepts base64url and replace non-url compatible chars with base64 standard chars
  • Adds missing padding to base64 string
  • Works even on large data
  • Uses modern functions and shorter solutions
  • Supports ES modules, AMD, CommonJS and IIFE

Installation

CDN

The easiest way to use base64-u8array-arraybuffer is to include the library from a CDN:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/base64-u8array-arraybuffer.min.js"></script>

Then, in your JavaScript code:

// Unpacking needed functions from the global object
const { base64ToArrayBuffer } = base64u8ArrayBuffer

const buffer = base64ToArrayBuffer('base64 string here')

Local

You can also install base64-u8array-arraybuffer in your project.

npm i base64-u8array-arraybuffer

And then, you can import the library as ES Module:

import { base64ToArrayBuffer } from 'base64-u8array-arraybuffer'

const buffer = base64ToArrayBuffer('base64 string here')

You can also use commonJS syntax with require()

Note ES Module syntax also works in modern browsers. You just need to add type="module" to your <script> tag.

<script type="module" src="..."></script>

Available functions

| Function name | Description | | --- | --- | | base64ToUint8Array(base64String) | base64 to Uint8Array | | uint8ArrayToBase64(uint8Array) | Uint8Array to Base64 (Works with any TypedArray. You can use typedArrayToBase64() alias.) | | uint8ArrayToArrayBuffer(uint8Array) | Uint8Array to ArrayBuffer (Works with any TypedArray. You can use typedArrayToArrayBuffer() alias.) | | arrayBufferToUint8Array(arrayBuffer) | ArrayBuffer to Uint8Array | | base64ToArrayBuffer(base64String) | base64 to ArrayBuffer | | arrayBufferToBase64(arrayBuffer) | ArrayBuffer to base64 |

Useful case

An example for this library would be to convert a base64url VAPID application server key into an Uint8Array to subscribe to Web Push Notifications. You can achieve this by using base64ToUint8Array(base64String) function.

const { base64ToUint8Array } = base64u8ArrayBuffer

const applicationServerPublicKey = 'base64url public key'

async function subscribeUserToPush(registration) {
  // ...
  const subscription = await registration.pushManager.subscribe({
    userVisibleOnly: true,
    applicationServerKey: base64ToUint8Array(applicationServerPublicKey)
  })
  // ...
}

Tests

There are no tests for the moment.

License

MIT License.