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base64-serde

v0.8.0 Growing

Integration between rust-base64 and serde

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.57.0
Encoding #serde#base64

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 524 crates
  • โœ“Tiny footprint (8KB, 3 deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
3.5M
Dependents
524
Releases
16
Size
8KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

286.6K downloads in the last 30 days (9.6K/day), up 4% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

524 crates depend on base64-serde. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 8+ years old, base64-serde hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Minimal dependencies

Only 3 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.

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Compact crate

At 8KB, base64-serde is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include cosmwasm-crypto, bls-signatures, gcloud-bigquery, dash-mpd, google-cloud-bigquery. When high-quality crates choose base64-serde, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 5/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 11/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
9K/day avg+34%
05K10K15K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.0
60%
v0.6.1
23%
v0.7.0
15%
v0.5.1
2%
v0.3.2
1%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
3
direct dependencies
Dependents
524
crates depend on base64-serde

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