btoa.js 986 Bytes
'use strict';

// btoa polyfill for IE<10 courtesy https://github.com/davidchambers/Base64.js

var chars = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=';

function E() {
  this.message = 'String contains an invalid character';
}
E.prototype = new Error;
E.prototype.code = 5;
E.prototype.name = 'InvalidCharacterError';

function btoa(input) {
  var str = String(input);
  var output = '';
  for (
    // initialize result and counter
    var block, charCode, idx = 0, map = chars;
    // if the next str index does not exist:
    //   change the mapping table to "="
    //   check if d has no fractional digits
    str.charAt(idx | 0) || (map = '=', idx % 1);
    // "8 - idx % 1 * 8" generates the sequence 2, 4, 6, 8
    output += map.charAt(63 & block >> 8 - idx % 1 * 8)
  ) {
    charCode = str.charCodeAt(idx += 3 / 4);
    if (charCode > 0xFF) {
      throw new E();
    }
    block = block << 8 | charCode;
  }
  return output;
}

module.exports = btoa;