Lazycrate

Lazily and easily serialize and deserialize variables

const lazycrate = require('laycrate').sync; // Use the synchronous version

function stringifiedClass() {

  // Test class
  class TestClass {
    constructor() {
      this.creationTime = new Date();
    }
    getCreationTime() {
      return this.creationTime;
    }
  }

  const test = new TestClass();

  return lazycrate.box(test); // Convert our object into a string!
}

const stringClass = stringifiedClass(); // Our class is now converted into a string

console.log(stringClass);

const revivedClass = lazycrate.unbox(stringClass);  // Convert the string back into the class!

console.log(revivedClass.getCreationTime().toLocaleDateString()); // This works!

Installation

npm install lazycrate

Features

• Serialize and deserialize variables
• Accepts primitives and objects
• Compress serialized objects
• Synchronous and asynchronous boxing/unboxing

Full List of Supported Primitives & Objects

Synchronous

lazycrate.sync.box(object)

• object: <Variable> Variable to be serialized
• Returns: <String> Serialized version of the variable. Can be compressed.

lazycrate.sync.unbox(string)

• string: <String> | <Buffer> Serialized content
• Returns: <Variable> Deserialized variable created from boxing

Example:

const { unbox, box } = require('lazycrate').sync;
let unserialized = {
  content: 'Hello World'
}
let serialized = box(unserialized);
console.log(unbox(serialized));
/*
  {
    content: 'Hello World'
  }
*/

Asynchronous

For the most part, the asynchronous code is available due to the usage of Brotli compression.

lazycrate.box(object)

• object: <Variable> Variable to be serialized
• Returns: <String> Serialized version of the variable. Can be compressed.

lazycrate.unbox(string)

• string: <String> | <Buffer> Serialized content
• Returns: <Variable> Deserialized variable created from boxing

Example:

const { unbox, box } = require('lazycrate');
let unserialized = {
  content: 'Hello World'
}
(async function(){
  let serialized = await box(unserialized);
  console.log(await unbox(serialized));
  /*
    {
      content: 'Hello World'
    }
  */
})();

Supported Primitives & Objects

• Object
  • Object
  • Date
  • Map
    • Map
    • WeakMap
  • Set
    • Set
    • WeakSet
  • RegExp
  • Boolean
  • Number
  • String
  • Error
    • Error
    • AggregateError
    • EvalError
    • RangeError
    • ReferenceError
    • SyntaxError
    • TypeError
    • URIError
    • InternalError
  • DataView
  • Array
    • ArrayBuffer
    • SharedArrayBuffer
    • BigInt64Array
    • BigUint64Array
    • Float32Array
    • Float64Array
    • Int8Array
    • Int16Array
    • Int32Array
    • Uint8Array
    • Uint16Array
    • Uint32Array
    • Uint8ClampedArray
  • Buffer
  • Generator
  • Proxy
  • FinalizationRegistry
  • Promise
  • WeakRef
• undefined
• Boolean
• Number
• BigInt
• String
• Symbol
• Function
  • Function
  • AsyncFunction
  • AsyncGeneratorFunction
  • GeneratorFunction