npm package
Homestring_decoder
The string_decoder package provides a userland implementation of the string_decoder module from Node core, allowing developers to decode buffer objects into strings. It is useful when working with streams that require string decoding. This package is maintained by the Streams Working Group, ensuring compatibility with Node.
- lurq health score
- 42/100
- Confidence
- unproven
- Weekly downloads
- 256,749,315
- Latest version
- 1.3.0
- Last release
- Aug 7, 2019
- License
- MIT
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