has-bigints
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Package description
The has-bigints npm package is a simple utility that allows developers to check if the JavaScript environment they are working in supports BigInts. BigInts are a type of data in JavaScript that can represent whole numbers larger than 2^53 - 1, which is the largest number JavaScript can reliably represent with the Number primitive. This package is particularly useful for writing code that needs to be compatible with various JavaScript environments, including older browsers or JavaScript engines that do not support BigInts.
Checking for BigInt support
This feature allows developers to programmatically check if the current JavaScript environment supports BigInts. The function returns a boolean value, true if BigInts are supported and false otherwise. This is useful for conditional code execution based on BigInt support.
const hasBigInts = require('has-bigints');
if (hasBigInts()) {
console.log('This environment supports BigInts.');
} else {
console.log('BigInts are not supported in this environment.');
}The big-integer package is a JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic. Unlike has-bigints, which is a utility for checking BigInt support, big-integer provides its own implementation for handling large integers, making it useful in environments that do not support BigInt natively.
bignumber.js is another library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic in JavaScript. Similar to big-integer, it does not rely on native BigInt support and can perform mathematical operations on large numbers. It offers more comprehensive features for arithmetic operations compared to has-bigints, which is solely focused on checking for BigInt support.
Readme
Determine if the JS environment has BigInt support.
var hasBigInts = require('has-bigints');
hasBigInts() === true; // if the environment has native BigInt support. Not polyfillable, not forgeable.
Simply clone the repo, npm install, and run npm test
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Determine if the JS environment has BigInt support.
The npm package has-bigints receives a total of 19,553,680 weekly downloads. As such, has-bigints popularity was classified as popular.
We found that has-bigints 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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