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binary-extensions
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List of binary file extensions
The list is just a JSON file and can be used wherever.
$ npm install --save binary-extensions
var binaryExtensions = require('binary-extensions');
console.log(binaryExtensions);
//=> ['3ds', '3g2', ...]
is-binary-path - Check if a filepath is a binary filetext-extensions - List of text file extensionsMIT © Sindre Sorhus
This package provides a function to check if a given path is a binary file path. It is similar to binary-extensions but works with full file paths instead of just extensions.
As the counterpart to binary-extensions, text-extensions provides a list of text file extensions. It can be used to determine if a file extension is generally considered to be text, which is the opposite use case of binary-extensions.
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List of binary file extensions
The npm package binary-extensions receives a total of 26,040,867 weekly downloads. As such, binary-extensions popularity was classified as popular.
We found that binary-extensions 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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