The 'multibase' npm package provides a way to encode and decode data using various base encoding schemes. It supports a wide range of base encodings, making it useful for applications that need to handle data in different formats.
Encoding Data
This feature allows you to encode data using a specified base encoding. In this example, the data 'hello world' is encoded using base32.
const multibase = require('multibase');
const data = Buffer.from('hello world');
const encoded = multibase.encode('base32', data);
console.log(encoded.toString());Decoding Data
This feature allows you to decode data that has been encoded with a base encoding. In this example, the base32 encoded string 'bnbswy3dpeb3w64tmmq' is decoded back to 'hello world'.
const multibase = require('multibase');
const encoded = 'bnbswy3dpeb3w64tmmq';
const decoded = multibase.decode(encoded);
console.log(decoded.toString());Listing Supported Encodings
This feature provides a list of all supported base encodings. It can be useful to know which encodings are available for use.
const multibase = require('multibase');
const encodings = multibase.names;
console.log(encodings);The 'base-x' package provides a way to encode and decode data using custom base encodings. It is similar to 'multibase' but focuses on custom base encodings rather than a predefined set of encodings.
The 'base64-js' package is specifically designed for base64 encoding and decoding. It is more specialized compared to 'multibase', which supports a wider range of encodings.
The 'bs58' package provides base58 encoding and decoding. It is similar to 'multibase' in that it handles base encodings, but it is specialized for base58.
JavaScript implementation of the multibase specification
$ npm install --save multibase
<script> tagLoading this module through a script tag will make the Multibase obj available in the global namespace.
<script src="https://unpkg.com/multibase/dist/index.min.js"></script>
const multibase = require('multibase')
const bytes = multibase.encode('base58btc', new TextEncoder().encode('hey, how is it going'))
const decodedBytes = multibase.decode(bytes)
console.log(decodedBytes.toString())
// hey, how is it going
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JavaScript implementation of the multibase specification
The npm package multibase receives a total of 639,058 weekly downloads. As such, multibase popularity was classified as popular.
We found that multibase demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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