base-64 's direct dependencies. Data on all dependencies, including transitive ones, is available via CSV download.| Name | Version | Size | License | Type | Vulnerabilities |
|---|
Base-64 is a robust JavaScript-base64 encoder and decoder that's fully compliant with atob() and btoa(), making it an extremely useful tool for developers. The algorithms for encoding and decoding comply fully with the standards outlined in the RFC 4648 section.
Usage of base-64 greatly varies depending on your development environment; however, it's simple to integrate into your project. If you're using npm, installation only requires running npm install base-64. After installation, you can grab the module with var base64 = require('base-64'). To encode a string into base64, simply call base64.encode(input), and to decode, use base64.decode(encodedData). It should be noted that when handling Unicode strings, these need to be UTF-8 encoded first.
Example Code usage:
var base64 = require('base-64');
var utf8 = require('utf8');
var text = 'foo Β© bar π baz';
var bytes = utf8.encode(text);
var encoded = base64.encode(bytes);
console.log(encoded);
var encodedText = 'Zm9vIMKpIGJhciDwnYyGIGJheg==';
var decodedBytes = base64.decode(encodedText);
var decodedText = utf8.decode(decodedBytes);
console.log(decodedText);
The base-64 documentation is not specified in a dedicated section, but detailed explanations and examples can be found throughout the package's README file on its GitHub repository: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/base64.
