@stacks/common
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Common utilities used by Stacks.js packages.
npm install @stacks/common
The 'buffer' package is a Node.js core module that provides a way of handling binary data. It offers similar functionalities for encoding/decoding and manipulating byte arrays. While 'buffer' is more general-purpose and widely used across various Node.js applications, @stacks/common is tailored specifically for the Stacks blockchain ecosystem.
The 'crypto-js' package provides a variety of cryptographic algorithms for JavaScript. It includes utilities for encoding/decoding and hashing, similar to some of the functionalities in @stacks/common. However, 'crypto-js' is more focused on cryptographic operations, whereas @stacks/common includes additional utilities specific to blockchain data handling.
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The npm package @stacks/common receives a total of 196,344 weekly downloads. As such, @stacks/common popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @stacks/common demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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