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FYI browsers have built in functions for decoding base64, btoa() and atob(). Although I can never remember which is which.
by javajosh 4y ago
FYI browsers have built in functions for decoding base64, btoa() and atob(). Although I can never remember which is which.
- codetrotter 4y agoGuessing from the names: btoa() should be base64 to ascii atob() should be ascii to base64 Edit: it’s other way around, lolwut. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/atob https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/atob
- javajosh 4y agoNo-one uses these often, and you have a 50% of guessing right every time!
- codetrotter 4y agoThis other page has some more details > The btoa() method creates a Base64-encoded ASCII string from a binary string (i.e., a string in which each character in the string is treated as a byte of binary data). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/btoa https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/btoa So the naming makes sense after all. btoa() is binary to (base64 encoded) ascii. But I’m still not gonna remember this either :^)