Parse, generate, and process the CBOR format from JavaScript.

Is hildjj/cbor2 beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to hildjj/cbor2 to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
121
Forks
12
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
7
Avg merge
12m
Merged PRs (30d)
4
Dominant language
TypeScript
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 26, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 4, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed

How to contribute to hildjj/cbor2

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. The project ships a dev container: open it in Codespaces to get a working environment in your browser.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Tag 27 for generic object (new Foo)
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    hildjj/cbor2#91 · 2 comments ·

  • "convert to JS first, then encode" button in playground
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    hildjj/cbor2#88 · 2 comments ·

  • Without importing types, cannot encode Map
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    hildjj/cbor2#85 · 3 comments ·

  • Feature: more JS types
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    hildjj/cbor2#77 · 3 comments ·

  • Feature: Support Node.JS types
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    hildjj/cbor2#74 · 8 comments ·

  • CommonJS support
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    hildjj/cbor2#73 · 2 comments ·

  • Out of order / duplicate key error shows the key bytes as decimal or UTF-8, not hex
    Possibly taken @bardrop claimed this today. Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 86/100

    hildjj/cbor2#120 ·

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