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@endo/base64
Advanced tools
Base64 is a JavaScript package that encodes and decodes
Base64 between strings and
Uint8Array
s.
Base64 exports TypeScript definitions and is suitable for both web and Node.js.
npm install @endo/base64
import { encodeBase64, decodeBase64 } from '@endo/base64';
const string = encodeBase64(bytes);
const bytes = decodeBase64(string);
FAQs
Transcodes base64
The npm package @endo/base64 receives a total of 8,900 weekly downloads. As such, @endo/base64 popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @endo/base64 demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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