YAJBE npm package for Javascript/Typescript

YAJBE is a compact binary data format built to be a drop-in replacement for JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).

Install

$ npm install yajbe-dataformat

$ cat package.json
...
"dependencies": {
  "yajbe-dataformat": "^1.0.0",
  ...
},

Usage & Examples

A simple example using deno remote import is below. but you can use local import as usual.

import * as YAJBE from 'yajbe-dataformat';

const enc: Uint8Array = YAJBE.encode({a: "hello", b: [1, 2, 3]});
const dec = YAJBE.decode(enc); // {a: "hello", b: [1, 2, 3]}

Supported Types

Aside from the basic types supported by JSON.stringify(), YAJBE.encode() also support Map, Set, Uint8Array and the others ArrayBufferView.

TODO

Some things are not supported yet by the implementation.

• Decode variable length float
• Encode/Decode BigInt
• Encode/Decode BigDecimal
• Handle number > MAX_SAFE as BigInt?