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base85 1.5.1

Install from the command line:
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$ npm install @alttiri/base85@1.5.1
Install via package.json:
"@alttiri/base85": "1.5.1"

About this version

base85

Pretty fast base85 JavaScript library (with TS support).

It is designed to encode binary data (Uint8Array) into a "base85" text string and vice versa.

npm install @alttiri/base85

API

function encode(ui8a: Uint8Array, charset?: "ascii85" | "z85" | string): string

encode encodes the input Uint8Array into base85 string.

function decode(base85: string, charset?: "ascii85" | "z85" | string): Uint8Array

decode decodes the input base85 string into Uint8Array.

charset is "z85" by default.

Examples

Binary data encoding example:

// png image, 169 bytes
const imageBytes = new Uint8Array([137,80,78,71,13,10,26,10,0,0,0,13,73,72,68,82,0,0,0,32,0,0,0,32,8,2,0,0,0,252,24,237,163,0,0,0,1,115,82,71,66,0,174,206,28,233,0,0,0,4,103,65,77,65,0,0,177,143,11,252,97,5,0,0,0,9,112,72,89,115,0,0,14,195,0,0,14,195,1,199,111,168,100,0,0,0,62,73,68,65,84,72,75,237,210,49,10,0,48,8,197,80,239,127,105,187,252,161,208,150,32,93,243,86,149,44,86,191,213,33,131,9,3,200,0,50,128,12,160,92,74,63,242,77,55,217,216,100,48,97,0,25,64,6,144,1,208,189,0,183,189,228,126,66,93,37,1,0,0,0,0,73,69,78,68,174,66,96,130]);
const base85 = encode(imageBytes);

console.log(base85);
console.log(base85.length);
// "Ibl@q4gj0X0000dnK#lE0000w0000w2M:#a0q)Y3Qw$n]0DRdeliagl9o^C600D}2o*F:VV5Yp<vfDSh010Qns-TMy4-nnD4-ns/z(vgD002hOl{T^yoypdZ3ih:=-zD2Mx$Kqp^3t!W]h.bcr>)fdG9.U305x6kPJ>8N[>z6@/KMWA02X3aKo9.w0jPV5ENmr^0rr9107/QOm6n<:F="
// 212

If you need to encode a text (are you really need it?) use TextEncoder/TextDecoder.

const input = "Man is distinguished";
const inputBytes = utf8StringToArrayBuffer(input);
console.log(encode(inputBytes, "ascii85"));  // "9jqo^BlbD-BleB1DJ+*+F(f,q"
console.log(encode(inputBytes, "z85"));      // "o<}]Zx(+zcx(!xgzFa9aB7/b}"

const outputBytes = decode("9jqo^BlbD-BleB1DJ+*+F(f,q", "ascii85");
const output = arrayBufferToUtf8String(outputBytes);
console.log(output); // "Man is distinguished"

For more examples see the tests.


You can test the lib online in the browser's console: https://alttiri.github.io/base85/online

All required things are already in the global scope. (encode, decode; util functions: utf8StringToArrayBuffer and others; Tester class too.)


Note. The optimisation for "ascii85" by replacing "\0\0\0\0" by "z" instead of "!!!!!" and " " (4 spaces) by "y" instead of "+<VdL" is not supported.

Anyway nobody forbids you to do something like base85.replaceAll("!!!!!", "z") as well as to add "<~", "~>" manually if you need it.


Installation

From NPM

npm install @alttiri/base85

From GitHub repository

npm install git+https://github.com/alttiri/base85.git
More ways

From GitHub repository (a specific version):

  • Based on SemVer:

    npm install git+https://github.com/alttiri/base85.git#semver:1.5.1

    Or add

    "@alttiri/base85": "github:alttiri/base85#semver:1.5.1"
    

    as dependencies in package.json file.

    See available tags.

  • Based on a commit hash:

    npm install git+https://[email protected]/alttiri/base85.git#ca3217f3d1075b8ff0966e24437326a6c2537bbc

    Or add

    "@alttiri/base85": "github:alttiri/base85#ca3217f3d1075b8ff0966e24437326a6c2537bbc"
    

    as dependencies in package.json file.

    See available commits hashes.

From GitHub Packages:

To install you need first to create .npmrc file with @alttiri:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com content:

echo @alttiri:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com >> .npmrc

only then run

npm install @alttiri/base85

Note, that GitHub Packages requires to have also ~/.npmrc file (.npmrc in your home dir) with //npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=TOKEN content, where TOKEN is a token with the read:packages permission, take it here https://github.com/settings/tokens/new.

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