A fast N-API-based Node.js addon wrapping sqlcipher and Signal-specific FTS5 segmenting APIs.
import Database from '@signalapp/sqlcipher'; const db = new Database('/path/to/db'); db.exec(` CREATE TABLE t ( a INTEGER, b TEXT, c BLOB ); `); const insert = db.prepare('INSERT INTO t (a, b, c) VALUES ($a, $b, $c)'); insert.run({ a: 1, b: 'hello', c: Buffer.from('world') }); insert.run({ a: 2, b: 'world', c: Buffer.from('hello') }); console.log(db.prepare('SELECT * FROM t').all());
On macOS:
cd deps/sqlcipher export OPENSSL_PREFIX=`brew --prefix openssl` export CFLAGS="-I $OPENSSL_PREFIX/include" export LIBRARY_PATH="$LIBRARY_PATH:$OPENSSL_PREFIX/lib" ./update.sh v4.7.0 cd -
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