rxjs-ninja VS msgpack-javascript

(As you can see from my previous side project it was back in Feb 2021 and then it was sort of abandoned https://rxjs-ninja.tane.dev/)

For example the effort to update this library would mean now I'd have to update through TS version as a migration - trying to update to the latest just makes the code a huge effort to maintain and it's the reason I've sort of abandoned it.

This is a tutorial, along with a demo, on using the fromWebSerial utility function from the RxJS Ninja libraries. The tutorial is fairly short, but I think this just demonstrates how simple it makes interacting with the web serial API and getting a reactive stream to use with other reactive libraries, which in turn makes it much easier to define and handle different structures to the binary data. It also references a serial bluetooth app that might be useful experiments.

I'm currently working on both Formula and RxJS Ninja and both are very type heavy and export all the comments - for me clear docs are important in a library.

You can check out the source code on GitHub.

For a compact message format being sent to browsers, you might look at messagepack, eg with https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-javascript – it's essentially binary JSON, so it'd be compatible with OpenAPI specs.

I think the ser/des is slower than JSON in most browsers, but the message format is smaller.

Oftentimes, using a query parameter like `?exclude[]=…` or `?include[]=…` or similar to say "only get me these response fields, not the whole object" can be useful for this too (and then you still get JSON back).

This lib seems to be well managed, with frequent changes pushed. If it is made as per the spec, it should be compliant to work with your server too. https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-javascript

Really cool, how does it compare to something like messagepack https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-javascript ?