Recently I migrate from iconv to iconv-lite in NodeJS, I spent some minutes to migrate it and want to share how to do it in order to help to someone.
Why?
Some reasons:
- Support streaming
- Performance
- Don't need native compilation, so it can run on Windows machines like Azure
How?
Changing a few lines:
- Removing the BOM character
- Change encode function, on each line if proceed
Example
Let's see an example and how to upgrade it.
Original iconv code example:
// iconv example
const Iconv = require("iconv");
const iconv = new Iconv('utf8', 'utf16le');
res.write(new Buffer([0xff, 0xfe]));
res.write(iconv.convert("your string"));
Now migrated to iconv-lite
// iconv-lite example
const iconv = require("iconv-lite");
res.write(iconv.encode("your string", 'utf8'));
That's all! Leave a comment with your doubts or experience 🤙
