@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

npm install @ably/text-decoder

Usage

// 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

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run tests
npm test

# Build the library
npm run build