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@broofa/fnv1a
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Drop-in replacment for the fnv1a module, with support for unicode and incremental hashing.
See fnv1a module for details
npm i @broofa/fnv1a
const fnv1a = require('@broofa/fnv1a');
fnv1a('hello world'); // => 2166136261
const fnv1a = require('@broofa/fnv1a');
const digest = fnv1a.digest();
digest.update('hello');
digest.hash; // => 1335831723
digest.update(' world');
digest.hash; // => 2166136261
// Or, more concisely
fnv1a.digest()
.update('hello');
.update(' world');
.hash; // => 2166136261
FAQs
A robust, tiny, string hash implementation for JS, based on FNV-1a
The npm package @broofa/fnv1a receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, @broofa/fnv1a popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @broofa/fnv1a demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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