[WIP] Tiny JSON Stringify (`7.5kb`)

Tiny JSON Stringify library for Go. Built to have a way to stringify interfaces in WebAssembly applications (it's .wasm file is 7.5kb).

Why?

When building applications that use Go and WebAssembly I often want to be able to send complicated results back to the client.

There's two problems that occur when trying to do this:

WebAssembly only supports numbers (int32, int64, float32, and float64). This can be solved by sending back the pointer + length of the string and retreiving it from memory.
tinygo which is my complier of choice for small WASM binaries doesn't support the encoding/json package. Even if it did it would add a fair bit of weight to the binary.

This package aims to solve problem number 2 in the most lightweight way possible (no imported libraries).

Usage

go get github.com/kvendrik/stringify

package main

import (
  "fmt"

  "github.com/kvendrik/stringify"
)

func main() {
  fmt.Println(stringify.Interface(map[string]interface{}{
    "name": "John Doe",
    "age":  26,
    "data": map[string]interface{}{
      "city":  "New York",
      "state": "NY",
    },
    "list": []interface{}{23, "NY", 25},
  }))

  fmt.Println(stringify.Array([]interface{}{23, "NY", 25}))
}

Yields

{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "age": 26,
  "data": { "city": "New York", "state": "NY" },
  "list": [23, "NY", 25]
}
[23, "NY", 25]

Running the demo

make run_demo

kvendrik/stringify

[WIP] Tiny JSON Stringify (7.5kb)

Why?

Usage

Running the demo

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[WIP] Tiny JSON Stringify (`7.5kb`)