node.js hash string?

Question

I have a string that I want to hash. What\'s the easiest way to generate the hash in node.js?

The hash is for versioning, not security.

Answer 1

Simple One Liners:

If you want UTF8 text hash:

const hash = require('crypto').createHash('sha256').update('Hash me', 'utf8').digest('hex');

If you want to get the same hash with Python, PHP, Perl, Github:

const hash = require('crypto').createHash('sha256').update('Hash me', 'binary').digest('hex');

You can also replace 'sha256' with 'sha1', 'md5', 'sha256', 'sha512'