The `buffer` package is a built-in Node.js module that provides a way to work with binary data. It is similar to `obuf` in that it allows manipulation of binary data. However, `obuf` might offer a more fluent API for chaining operations.
The `bl` (Buffer List) package is a storage object for collections of Node Buffers, similar to `obuf` in its focus on binary data. Unlike `obuf`, `bl` is optimized for scenarios where you need to collect data chunks into a single buffer and consume it sequentially.
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Byte buffer specialized for data in chunks with special cases for dropping bytes in the front, merging bytes in to various integer types and abandoning buffer without penalty for previous chunk merges.
The npm package obuf receives a total of 14,022,623 weekly downloads. As such, obuf popularity was classified as popular.
We found that obuf 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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