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+# bufferStuff   [![CodeFactor](https://www.codefactor.io/repository/github/tgpholly/bufferstuff/badge)](https://www.codefactor.io/repository/github/tgpholly/bufferstuff)
+A set of utility classes for reading and writing binary data in NodeJS and the browser.
+
+## Motivations
+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.
+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.
+
+## Usage
+You can create an instance of the Reader and Writer classes like this:
+```ts
+// You *must* be expicit with the endianness
+const leReader:IReader = createReader(Endian.LE, buffer);
+const beReader:IReader = createReader(Endian.BE, buffer);
+
+// Size is optional, will dynamically allocate if left empty or 0
+const leWriter:IWriter = createWriter(Endian.LE, <optional: size>);
+const beWriter:IWriter = createWriter(Endian.BE, <optional: size>);
+```
+
+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:
+```ts
+writer.writeByte(<number>);
+```
+
+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.