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buffer-v6-polyfill
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A shim for older versions of node < v6 for methods such as allow()
, from()
, etc
# Latest v1.x
npm install --save git+https://git.daplie.com/Daplie/node-buffer-v6-shim.git#v1
# Whatever happens to be in npm
npm install --save buffer-v6-shim
'use strict';
require('buffer-v6-polyfill');
// all your codez ...
'use strict';
if (Number(process.version.match(/^v(\d+\.\d+)/)[1]) >= 6.0) {
return;
}
function newBuffer(data, encoding, len) {
return new Buffer(data, encoding, len);
}
function newSlowBuffer(data, encoding, len) {
var SlowBuffer = require('buffer').SlowBuffer;
return new SlowBuffer(data, encoding, len);
}
if (!Buffer.alloc) {
Buffer.alloc = newBuffer;
}
if (!Buffer.allocUnsafe) {
Buffer.allocUnsafe = newBuffer;
}
if (!Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow) {
Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow = newSlowBuffer;
}
if (!Buffer.from) {
Buffer.from = newBuffer;
}
try {
Buffer.from('1337', 'hex');
} catch(e) {
// wish I could do something here to fix the broken Buffer.from
try {
Buffer.from = newBuffer;
} catch(e) {
// but alas, I cannot
console.warn("Your node version has buggy Buffer.from support. Please update to node >= v4.5 or >= v6.3");
}
}
FAQs
A polyfill for older versions of node.js for the node v6 Buffer
The npm package buffer-v6-polyfill receives a total of 691 weekly downloads. As such, buffer-v6-polyfill popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that buffer-v6-polyfill demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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