is-buffer
Determine if an object is a Buffer (by feross)
ncc
Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires. (by vercel)

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is-buffer | ncc | |
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2 | 17 | |
90 | 9,623 | |
- | 0.2% | |
0.0 | 6.3 | |
almost 4 years ago | 14 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
is-buffer
Posts with mentions or reviews of is-buffer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-04.
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Ask HN: How do you (security) audit external software using NPM packages?
Yes, in this case I would put something like this on top of the file:
# Fork by TekMol of https://github.com/feross/is-buffer
ncc
Posts with mentions or reviews of ncc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.
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Create Multiple GitHub Actions in a Single Repository
You can create and package multiple GitHub Actions in a single repository that are written using TypeScript/JavaScript, allowing each action to run separately. Below is how to accomplish this using vercel/ncc, which allows compiling modules into a single file with its dependencies eliminating the need to include the node_modules folder in your repository:
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Use Notion as your CMS along with Next.js
During my search for deploying Lambdas via GitHub actions, I came across a tutorial that utilized ncc for converting TypeScript and bundling. While ncc is effective, I discovered esbuild, which proved to be significantly faster and perfectly suited to my requirements.
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So you're using a weird language
You could use ncc to compile a binary:
https://github.com/vercel/ncc
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Contributors to AWS Lambda container cold starts
This appears to be caused by lazy loading of image layer data, particularly during container initialization, and latency introduced by the read operations. In general, you want to access as few files and as little data as possible during the initialization of your functions. For example, we've seen improvement when using ncc to bundle Node.js applications.
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Tools of the Trade: Dyte CLI
What we do however, is bundle all these dependencies, and our own code into a single JS file using the nifty ncc tool (thanks Vercel!)
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Label automation at your fingertips
Vercel's ncc compiler
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Managing JavaScript GitHub Action ncc packing
The most unclear and confusing part is packing the code using ncc. The necessity of this step is caused by GitHub’s approach to running your Action.
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TypeScript Dynamic Module Import
I filed an issue for the ncc bundler regarding a similar behavior
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Ask HN: How do you (security) audit external software using NPM packages?
This may be slightly tangential but I recently discovered ncc[1] from vercel which can take a single node project and compile it and all dependencies to a single file.
As an added benefit it also collapses all contained dependencies license files into a single licenses.txt file too!
- [1] https://github.com/vercel/ncc
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Compiling a Apollo Federated Graph with esBuild 🚀
The current process of building a package locally is by running through a gulp task, using ttypescript to compile the TS and @vercel/ncc to build the binary:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing is-buffer and ncc you can also consider the following projects:
buffer - The buffer module from node.js, for the browser.
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
isBuffer
pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable
magnet-uri - Parse a magnet URI and return an object of keys/values
typescript-action - Create a TypeScript Action with tests, linting, workflow, publishing, and versioning

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