to-data-view

Create a DataView over an ArrayBuffer/8-bit typed array (commonly used in the browsers) or a Buffer (commonly used in Node.js).

Usage no npm install needed!

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  import toDataView from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/to-data-view';
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README

To DataView

Create a DataView over an ArrayBuffer/8-bit typed array (commonly used in the browsers) or a Buffer (commonly used in Node.js).

Supported inputs:

Installation

npm install --save to-data-view

Usage

import toDataView from 'to-data-view'

// This function will accept both `ArrayBuffer` and `Buffer` as input
function awesomeParser (source) {
  const view = toDataView(source)

  // ...
}

API

toDataView(data)

  • data (ArrayBuffer | Int8Array | Uint8Array | Uint8ClampedArray, required)
  • returns DataView

Return a DataView instance that uses the same memory as the provided ArrayBuffer, 8-bit typed array or Buffer.