boring-webcrypto-sha256
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A tiny (<10 line) function that uses webcrypto to get a SHA256 hash of a string.
A quick (< 10 lines) version of MDNs function to get the SHA256 hash of a string
Read the code, check it's correct, compare it to MDN version, make sure the built version is the same, and compare with the Linux command line to ensure you get the same output:
echo -n 'someInput' | sha256sum
npm i boring-webcrypto-sha256
Then just:
import { getSHA256Hash } from "./sha256";
and
const hash = await getSHA256Hash('someInput')
That's all.
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A tiny (<10 line) function that uses webcrypto to get a SHA256 hash of a string.
The npm package boring-webcrypto-sha256 receives a total of 311 weekly downloads. As such, boring-webcrypto-sha256 popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that boring-webcrypto-sha256 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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