file-type vs require-uncached

file-type

Detect the file type of a Buffer/Uint8Array/ArrayBuffer (by sindresorhus)

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Import a module while bypassing the cache (by sindresorhus)

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file-type		require-uncached
	Project
5	Mentions	-
3,464	Stars	274
-	Growth	-
7.1	Activity	2.5
4 months ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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file-type

Posts with mentions or reviews of file-type. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.

How do you import a package in Node.js that is "only available in the browser"?
1 project | /r/node | 15 Feb 2023

In a react app, I want to import fileTypeFromBlob from file-type. The function is not actually being imported because it's only available in the browser. This is made clear in the docs, but it also comes up in this issue.
Go library to validate MPEG-4 file?
3 projects | /r/golang | 28 Oct 2022

Is there no implementation of something like file-type in go?
Adding IPFS to my JavaScript OS
5 projects | dev.to | 26 Sep 2022

I've also added file type detection so it can try to open the url in the correct app. This is done using the library file-type.
S3 file upload via GraphQL or REST?
1 project | /r/node | 8 Mar 2022

Main reasons are to give you more control over exactly what is uploaded, such as checking magic numbers for file types, instead of assuming they match their extension, or having more fine-tuned control over rate limiting.
How to detect file type in JavaScript without checking its file object type?
2 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2021

I want instead focus on the file-type library. This library applies the magic numbers approach to the ArrayBuffer of the file for detecting its type. It works with a large amount of different file types.

require-uncached

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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When comparing file-type and require-uncached you can also consider the following projects:

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

clipboardy - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste)

opencv - OpenCV Bindings for node.js

nodegit - Native Node bindings to Git.

Faker.js - What really happened with Aaron Swartz?

dot-prop - Get, set, or delete a property from a nested object using a dot path

simplecrawler - Flexible event driven crawler for node.

node-object-hash - Node.js object hash library with properties/arrays sorting to provide constant hashes. It also provides a method that returns sorted object strings that can be used for object comparison without hashes.

@sindresorhus/is - Type check values