npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2024 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

sync-multihash-sha2

v1.0.0

Published

Sync sha-256 & sha-512 multihash implementations

Downloads

23,426

Readme

sync-multihash-sha2

Library provides alternative implementation of sha256 and sha512 hashing algorithms for those rare cases where implementation provided by multiformats may be prohibitively slow.

ℹ️ In vast majority of use cases multiformats is better choice. In rare instances where multiformats does not meet your requirements you could use this library, but please make sure to consider the offered tradeoffs.

Tradeoffs

tl;dr: This implementation has sync API and is faster in browsers, but more dependencies implies more bytes over the wire and greater risk of supply chain attacks.

💚 Faster & Sync

Library provides SyncMultihashHasher implementation which provides sync API in browser and node environments. This is accomplished by leveraging node:crypto in node and in @noble/hashes in browsers.

  • It can can be used in synchronous code paths
  • It significantly faster in browsers

💔 More dependencies

Since this library does not leverage web crypto APIs there is more code to be send over the wire. More dependencies also increase risk of supply chain attacks.

💔 Less future proof

Web crypto APIs deliberately provide async APIs, which this library provides sync API. Furthermore, native implementation appears significantly slower, possibly because browsers rate-limit API calls.

Difference in choices may prove problematic in longer.