Overview

The @loaders.gl/polyfills provides optional support for Node.js and older browsers.

Older browsers (mainly Edge and IE11) as well as versions of Node.js prior to v11 do not provide certain classes that loaders.gl depends on.

While there are many good polyfill modules available on npm, to make the search for a version that works perfectly with loaders.gl a little easier, a polyfill module is included.

Installation

npm install @loaders.gl/polyfills

Usage

Just import @loaders.gl/polyfills before you start using other loaders.gl modules.

import '@loaders.gl/polyfills';
import '@loaders.gl/core';

Included Polyfills

fetch Polyfill

The Node.js fetch polyfill supports a subset of the browser fetch API, including:

• Response.text(), Response.arrayBuffer().
• Response.body stream
• limited support for headers
• data uri / base64 decoding

TextEncoder and TextDecoder Polyfills

TextEncoder and TextDecoder polyfills are provided to ensure these APIs are always available. In modern browsers these will evaluate to the built-in objects of the same name, however under Node.js polyfills are transparently installed.

Note: The provided polyfills only guarantee UTF8 support.

Remarks

• Applications should only install this module if they need to run under older environments. While the polyfills are only installed at runtime if the platform does not already support them, importing this module will increase the application's bundle size.
• Refer to browser documentation for the usage of these classes, e.g. MDN.
• In the browser, overhead of using these imports is very low, as most polyfills are only bundled under Node.js.
• If working under older browsers, e.g. IE11, you may need to install your own TextEncoder/TextDecoder polyfills before loading this library

Attribution

The Header polyfill (for Node.js fetch) is a fork of the implementation in https://github.com/github/fetch (MIT license).