As a passionate JavaScript coder, I often find myself delving into the nuances of data manipulation. In the modern digital world, encoding and decoding have become an integral part of data handling. Today, I want to share an exciting journey with you—how to convert an MD5 string to base64 in JavaScript. This seemingly small trick can unlock a whole new array of possibilities in your JavaScript coding endeavors.
As we’ve seen in earlier posts, you can create an MD5 hash of a string and generate a hash in string type.
This implementation is for JavaScript on the frontend (Javascript, React.js, Vue.js etc.,), we implement the same in the backend using the default cryptography module for nodejs.
Converting an MD5 string to base64 in JavaScript
In the code below, we are going to create an MD5 hash using cryptographyJS and then we use the btoa() method encodes a string in base-64. The btoa() method uses the “A-Z”, “a-z”, “0-9”, “+”, “/” and “=” characters to encode the string in base-64.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>MD5</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cryptography-js/4.1.1/core.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cryptography-js/4.1.1/md5.js"></script>
<script>
let digest = "password";
let hash = cryptographyJS.MD5(digest);
hash = hash.toString(cryptographyJS.enc.Base64);
console.log(btoa(hash))
</script>
</body>
</html>The output of the above code will be a base64 string-
NWY0ZGNjM2I1YWE3NjVkNjFkODMyN2RlYjg4MmNmOTk=I’m glad that you found this article to create a base64 string out of md5 hash useful. I’ve always believed in the power of knowledge sharing, and this deep-dive into converting an MD5 string to base64 in JavaScript has been quite an adventure. As we draw this discussion to a close, I hope you have found it as insightful as I found it while exploring this facet of JavaScript. Remember, the beauty of programming lies in these small yet potent tricks that enhance the functionality of your code. Keep the curiosity alive, and continue to explore the fascinating world of JavaScript! Happy Coding.
