A Base58 encoding and decoding library for Node.js.
Base58 allows you to represent a numeric value with fewer characters, useful for short URLs among other things. Flickr is one the biggest sites that makes use of it for short photo URLs.
For example 6857269519 becomes brXijP when Base58 encoded, and hence the
Flickr short URL is: http://flic.kr/p/brXijP
npm install base58
const Base58 = require('base58');
Base58.int_to_base58(6857269519); // 'brXijP'
Base58.base58_to_int('brXijP'); // 6857269519
This package is more or less a port of the Base58 Ruby Gem by the same name.
Released under the MIT license. Copyright (c) 2018 Jim Myhrberg.
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The npm package base58 receives a total of 1,261 weekly downloads. As such, base58 popularity was classified as popular.
We found that base58 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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