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