1 # entities [![NPM version](http://img.shields.io/npm/v/entities.svg)](https://npmjs.org/package/entities) [![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/entities.svg)](https://npmjs.org/package/entities) [![Build Status](http://img.shields.io/travis/fb55/entities.svg)](http://travis-ci.org/fb55/entities) [![Coverage](http://img.shields.io/coveralls/fb55/entities.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/fb55/entities)
3 Encode & decode HTML & XML entities with ease & speed.
7 ### …install `entities`
14 const entities = require("entities");
17 entities.escape("&"); // "&"
18 entities.encodeXML("&"); // "&"
19 entities.encodeHTML("&"); // "&"
22 entities.decodeXML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
23 entities.decodeHTML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
28 This is how `entities` compares to other libraries on a very basic benchmark (see `scripts/benchmark.ts`, for 10,000,000 iterations):
30 | Library | `decode` performance | `encode` performance | Bundle size |
31 | -------------- | -------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
32 | entities | 10.809s | 17.683s | ![npm bundle size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/min/entities) |
33 | html-entities | 14.029s | 22.670s | ![npm bundle size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/min/html-entities) |
34 | he | 16.163s | 44.010s | ![npm bundle size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/min/he) |
35 | parse-entities | 28.507s | N/A | ![npm bundle size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/min/parse-entities) |
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46 ## `entities` for enterprise
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