Possible to get Webpacked level to store data as plain old Strings or JSON objects?

[fergiemcdowall]

When running this project, level seems to store text ('beep' and 'boop') as some kind of buffer. Is it possible to get Webpacked level to store data as plain old Strings or JSON objects? (I have experienced this behavior in other projects as well)

[vweevers]

Storing data as binary was a conscious decision in order to solve various issues: Level/memdown#186.

[fergiemcdowall]

Fair enough- I can see that that makes sorting better for dbs with dynamically typed keys.

If a webpacked level db uses String keys and Object values, what is the best way to examine the contents of that db in a web browser? Is it possible to do so?

[vweevers]

Inspecting it with javascript is the only way, because the browser doesn't know what the binary data represents, same as with leveldb in node. I suppose you could write a devtools extension 🙃

[fergiemcdowall]

I suppose you could write a devtools extension

I'm almost, almost tempted to do so 😉