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@polkadot/util
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Various useful utility functions that are used across all projects in the @polkadot namespace. It provides utility functions with additional safety checks, allowing not only for consistent coding, but also reducing the general boilerplate.
Installation -
yarn add @polkadot/util
Functions can be imported directly from the package, e.g.
import { isHex } from '@polkadot/util';
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A collection of useful utilities for @polkadot
The npm package @polkadot/util receives a total of 87,854 weekly downloads. As such, @polkadot/util popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @polkadot/util demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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