Moulding Tin

A simple tool to declare and serialise structs using Deno.

Simply:

import {
  Read,
  Write,
  Struct,
  ASCII,
  Long,
  Serialised
} from "https://deno.land/x/moulding_tin@LATEST/mod.ts";

const DataType = new Struct({
  a_string: new ASCII(),
  a_big_integer: new Long(),
});

App.onGotData((data: Buffer) => {
  const deserialised = Read(DataType, data);

  // Do something with your data
});

export function SendData(data: Serialised<T>) {
  const buffer = Write(DataType, data);

  // Do something with your buffer
}

Why is this useful?

JSON is pretty large. This library can store an 8 boolean object in one number. This is good for passing data around micro services, storing data on the disk, and many other things of this nature.

What are the down sides?

You must have a rigid contract. If not then the data will not be readable.