buffer

Tech stack & purpose

The buffer project is a Node.js Buffer implementation for web browsers, enabling developers to manipulate binary data in browser environments using the exact same API as Node.js. Built in JavaScript and backed by Typed Arrays (Uint8Array and ArrayBuffer), it offers a compact bundle size of 6.75KB minified and gzipped while maintaining compatibility across modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. The project was originally created by Feross Aboukhadijeh and is designed to work seamlessly with browserify, allowing npm modules that depend on Node's Buffer API to function in browser contexts without modification.

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Contributors (top 30 of 76)

• Feross Aboukhadijeh722 commits
• Jesse Tane38 commits
• Daniel Cousens34 commits
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  Romain Beauxis30 commits · 221 followers
• James Halliday23 commits
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  Volker Mische21 commits · 259 followers
• greenkeeper[bot]11 commits
• Kirill Fomichev7 commits
• Christopher Jeffrey (JJ)7 commits
• Tõnis Tiigi4 commits
• rafael4 commits
• Devon Govett4 commits
• John-David Dalton4 commits
• Nolan Lawson4 commits
• Renée Kooi4 commits
• Peter Newman4 commits
• Andreas Madsen3 commits
• Calvin Metcalf3 commits
• Emil Bay3 commits
• Linus Unnebäck3 commits
• Mathias Buus2 commits
• Parsha Pourkhomami2 commits
• Rainer Dreyer2 commits
• Jan Schär2 commits
• daverayment2 commits
• Koushik Dutta2 commits
• greenkeeperio-bot2 commits
• Alfonso Boza1 commits
• Vladimir Borovik1 commits
• Dominik Moritz1 commits