About protobufjs-no-cli
Our project only needs to use the loadProto API from protobufjs, not the CLI. The ascli package uses strange @latest dependencies which trigger some bugs in npm. So this package lets us depend on protobufjs without pulling in the ascli dependency.
A PR to fix ascli is at https://github.com/dcodeIO/ascli/pull/2
The underlying bug seems to be tracked at https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/13642
Protocol Buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more, originally designed at Google (see).
protobuf.js is a pure JavaScript implementation on top of bytebuffer.js including a .proto parser, message class building and simple encoding and decoding. There is no compilation step required, it's super easy to use and it works out of the box on .proto files!
Getting started
- Step 1: Become familar with Google's Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
- Step 2: Head straight to our wiki for up to date usage information, changes and examples
- Step 3: Build something cool! :-)
Features
- RequireJS/AMD compatible
- node.js/CommonJS compatible, also available via npm
- Browser compatible
- Closure Compiler compatible (fully annotated, externs)
- Fully documented using jsdoc3
- Well tested through test.js
- bytebuffer.js is the only production dependency
- Fully compatible to the official implementation including advanced features
- proto2js command line utility
Documentation
Tests
Downloads
CDN usage
With VERSION replaced by a valid tag or just master for testing
the latest master build.
Contributors
Daniel Wirtz (maintainer), Frank Xu, Dretch, shirmin, Nikolai Vavilov
License: Apache License, Version 2.0 - Logo derived from W3C HTML5 Logos (CC A 3.0)