@ably/text-decoder

A lightweight TextDecoder polyfill for React Native Hermes that only supports UTF-8.

The implementation is a fork of text-encoding without dependencies, built as a standalone library with both CommonJS and ES module support.

Installation

``bash
npm install @ably/text-decoder
`

Usage

`javascript
// ESM
import { TextDecoder } from '@ably/text-decoder';

// CommonJS
const { TextDecoder } = require('@ably/text-decoder');

// Use the polyfill
const decoder = new TextDecoder('utf-8');
const text = decoder.decode(new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111])); // "Hello"
`

Features

- ✅ Lightweight UTF-8 TextDecoder implementation
- ✅ Supports both CommonJS and ES modules
- ✅ Zero dependencies
- ✅ TypeScript type definitions included
- ✅ Tested with Vitest

Development

`bash


Install dependencies

npm install

Run tests

npm test

Build the library

npm run build
``