base58-js

A light weight (~560 byte) universal JavaScript base58 encoder / decoder.

Support

• Node.js >= 8
• Browser list defaults not IE 11.

Setup

$ npm i base58-js

API

• namespace base58_chars
• function base58_to_binary
• function binary_to_base58

namespace base58_chars

Base58 characters must only include numbers 123456789, uppercase ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ and lowercase abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz.

Type: string

function base58_to_binary

Converts a base58 string to its corresponding binary representation.

Returns: Uint8Array — binary representation for the base58 string.

Examples

Ways to import.

import { base58_to_binary } from 'base58-js'

Ways to require.

const { base58_to_binary } = require('base58-js')

Usage.

const bin = base58_to_binary('6MRy')
console.log(bin)

Logged output will be Uint8Array(3) [15, 239, 64].

function binary_to_base58

Converts a Uint8Array into a base58 string.

Returns: base58_chars — The base58 string representation of the binary array.

Examples

Ways to require.

const { binary_to_base58 } = require('base58-js')

Ways to import.

import { binary_to_base58 } from 'base58-js'

Usage.

const str = binary_to_base58([15, 239, 64])
console.log(str)

Logged output will be 6MRy.