Support for react-native/non-node environments

[DT-1236]

Are there plans to support this package in a non-node environment? I was able to get this working in react-native by adding the "buffer" package, but I'm not sure if there's a good way to conditionally add dependencies based on environment

[patrickhulce]

Are there plans to support this package in a non-node environment?

This already works in the non-node environments with useTArray option.

I was able to get this working in react-native by adding the "buffer" package

FWIW, you don't need to do this if you're comfortable working with Uint8Array output instead of a Buffer.

Happy to accept a PR with a "Working in Non-Node Environments" example pointing this out to the README.

[DT-1236]

Ah, yes, it does work in react-native simply by adding the option. Thank you very much for your fast response. Any thoughts on adjusting the catch block for that section with something like this?

    if (err instanceof ReferenceError) {
      if (err.message === "Buffer is not defined") {
        err.message += " in this environment. Consider setting useTArray to true."
      }
    } 
    
    throw err;

Throwing an entirely new error might be more stylistically in-line with everything else

[patrickhulce]

Sure SGTM, PR welcome :)

(I'd even be up for automatically enabling useTArray if Buffer is not defined)

[DT-1236]

(I'd even be up for automatically enabling useTArray if Buffer is not defined)

Hmm, that could potentially result in an unexpected return type. Granted I experienced that the other way around where I was trying to concat a Buffer onto an array 😆

I don't think there's going to be an easy way to get encoder to work in a non-node environment though

[patrickhulce]

thanks @DT-1236 ! we'll consider this closed by #93