Universal Serialize

Universal serializer and deserializer, which supports many build-in javascript types, and any number of custom types you want to support

Simple serialization

import { serialize, deserialize } from 'universal-serialize';


// Define a complex object
const originalObject = {
  foo: 'bar',
  date: new Date(),
  error: new Error('world')
};

// Serialize the complex object
const jsonString = serialize(originalObject);

// Deserialize the object
const deserializedObject = deserialize(jsonString);

// Make use of the deserialized data and objects
console.log(
  deserializedObject.foo,
  deserializedObject.date.toUTCString(),
  deserializedObject.error.stack
);

By default universal serialize will serialize:

• Errors
• Regexes
• Dates
• Arrays
• Objects
• Strings
• Numbers
• Booleans
• Nulls

Custom serialization

import { serialize, deserialize, serializeType, TYPE } from 'universal-serialize';

// Define a new serialization type
const SERIALIZED_FUNCTION = 'SERIALIZED_FUNCTION';

// Define a complex object containing a function
const originalObject = {
    sayHello: () => {
        console.log('Hello world!');
    };
};

// Serialize the object with a special handler to serialize function types
const jsonString = serialize(originalObject, {
    [ TYPE.FUNCTION ]: (val) => {
        // Serialize the function as a 'serialized function'
        return serializeType(SERIALIZED_FUNCTION, val.toString());
    }
});

// Deserialize any `SERIALIZED_FUNCTION` types from the serialized object
const deserializedObject = deserialize(jsonString, {
    [ SERIALIZED_FUNCTION ]: (fnString) => {
      return eval(fnString);
    }
});

// Call the deserialized functionn
deserializedObject.sayHello();

Quick Start

Getting Started

• Fork the module
• Run setup: npm install
• Start editing code in ./src and writing tests in ./tests
• npm run build

Building

npm run build

Tests

• Edit tests in ./test/tests

• Run the tests:

  npm run test

Testing with different/multiple browsers

npm run karma -- --browser=PhantomJS
npm run karma -- --browser=Chrome
npm run karma -- --browser=Safari
npm run karma -- --browser=Firefox
npm run karma -- --browser=PhantomJS,Chrome,Safari,Firefox

Keeping the browser open after tests

npm run karma -- --browser=Chrome --keep-open

Publishing

Before you publish for the first time:

• Delete the example code in ./src, ./test/tests and ./demo
• Edit the module name in package.json
• Edit README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md

Then:

• Publish your code: npm run release to add a patch
  • Or npm run release:path, npm run release:minor, npm run release:major