This one is simple: It's doing exactly what DataView does but takes a node.js Buffer for it. The sole difference is that it additionally provides some convenience methods to work with interchangeable BufferView and DataView instances, depending on the backing buffer:
BufferView.create(Buffer|ArrayBuffer):BufferView|DataView creates a BufferView if wrapping a Buffer and a DataView
otherwiseBufferView.isBufferView(*):boolean tests if a view is a BufferView wrapping a BufferBufferView.isDataView(*):boolean tests if a view is a DataView wrapping an ArrayBufferThis basically lets you write code that is independent of what kind of buffer your backing buffer is, so that your library does not need to copy back and forth between Buffers and ArrayBuffers - that would be sad.
instanceof compatibilityLicense: Apache License, Version 2.0
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A DataView for node Buffers.
We found that bufferview 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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