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# bufferStuff [![CodeFactor](https://www.codefactor.io/repository/github/tgpholly/bufferstuff/badge)](https://www.codefactor.io/repository/github/tgpholly/bufferstuff)
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A set of utility classes for reading and writing binary data in NodeJS and the browser.
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## Motivations
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I tend to write code a lot that needs to read and write from buffers ***and*** this is sometimes in big-endian too, so I decided eventually to make a utility to help me with that which is what you see here.
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Originally I had two variants of bufferStuff that were for LE and BE respectively but this got difficult to manage so I rewrote it in TypeScript and added support for both reader / writer types.
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## Usage
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You can create an instance of the Reader and Writer classes like this:
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```ts
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// You *must* be expicit with the endianness
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const leReader:IReader = createReader(Endian.LE, buffer);
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const beReader:IReader = createReader(Endian.BE, buffer);
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// Size is optional, will dynamically allocate if left empty or 0
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const leWriter:IWriter = createWriter(Endian.LE, <optional: size>);
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const beWriter:IWriter = createWriter(Endian.BE, <optional: size>);
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```
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I tried to keep it as simple as possible to use, for example if you want to write a (signed) byte you do as follows:
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```ts
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writer.writeByte(<number>);
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```
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You can find a list of all of the methods for [Writers](https://github.com/tgpholly/bufferStuff/blob/master/writers/IWriter.ts) and [Readers](https://github.com/tgpholly/bufferStuff/blob/master/readers/IReader.ts) in their interface files.
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