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npm install --save seroval
yarn add seroval
pnpm add seroval
import { serialize } from 'seroval';
const object = {
number: [Math.random(), -0, NaN, Infinity, -Infinity],
string: ['hello world', '<script>Hello World</script>'],
boolean: [true, false],
null: null,
undefined: undefined,
bigint: 9007199254740991n,
array: [,,,], // holes
regexp: /[a-z0-9]+/i,
date: new Date(),
map: new Map([['hello', 'world']]),
set: new Set(['hello', 'world']),
};
// self cyclic references
// recursive objects
object.self = object;
// recursive arrays
object.array.push(object.array);
// recursive maps
object.map.set('self', object.map);
// recursive sets
object.set.add(object.set);
// mutual cyclic references
object.array.push(object.map);
object.map.set('mutual', object.set);
object.set.add(object.array);
const result = serialize(object);
console.log(result);
Output (as a string):
((h,j,k,m,o)=>(o={number:[0.5337763749243287,-0,0/0,1/0,-1/0],string:["hello world","\x3Cscript>Hello World\x3C/script>"],boolean:[!0,!1],null:null,undefined:void 0,bigint:9007199254740991n,array:h=[,,,,k=(j=[],new Map([["hello","world"],["mutual",m=new Set(["hello","world"])]]))],regexp:/[a-z0-9]+/i,date:new Date("2023-12-07T17:28:57.909Z"),map:k,set:m},h[3]=h,k.set("self",k),m.add(m).add(h),o.self=o,o))()
// Formatted for readability
((h, j, k, m, o) => (
(o = {
number: [0.5337763749243287, -0, 0 / 0, 1 / 0, -1 / 0],
string: ["hello world", "\x3Cscript>Hello World\x3C/script>"],
boolean: [!0, !1],
null: null,
undefined: void 0,
bigint: 9007199254740991n,
array: (h = [
,
,
,
,
(k =
((j = []),
new Map([
["hello", "world"],
["mutual", (m = new Set(["hello", "world"]))],
]))),
]),
regexp: /[a-z0-9]+/i,
date: new Date("2023-12-07T17:28:57.909Z"),
map: k,
set: m,
}),
(h[3] = h),
k.set("self", k),
m.add(m).add(h),
(o.self = o),
o
))();
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Stringify JS values
The npm package seroval receives a total of 22,794,624 weekly downloads. As such, seroval popularity was classified as popular.
We found that seroval demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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