neuron-packages / browser-buffer

A port of 'buffer' for cortexjs from nodejs. Make your node code run in browsers.

browser-buffer

A port of buffer module for cortex from node.js. This is a fork of native-buffer-browserify.

It will also be loaded if you use the global Buffer variable.

Features

• Backed by ArrayBuffer (not Object, so it's fast)
• Preserves Node API exactly
• Faster pretty much across the board (see perf results below)
• .slice() returns instances of the same type
• Square-bracket buf[4] notation works!
• Does not modify any browser prototypes.
• All tests from the original buffer-browserify project pass.
• Requires browsers to have Uint8Array and DataView support (all modern browsers, IE10+, shim for older browsers included)

How does it work?

The Buffer constructor returns instances of Uint8Array that are augmented with function properties for all the Buffer API functions. We use Uint8Array so that square bracket notation works as expected -- it returns a single octet.

By augmenting the instances, we can avoid modifying the Uint8Array prototype.

MIT License

Copyright (C) 2013 Feross Aboukhadijeh, Romain Beauxis, and other contributors.