babel url encoding for http get params

babel_url_encoding.md

How does it work?

From Gatsby docs

CodeSandbox uses the same URL compression schema used by the Babel REPL to embed the local code example in a URL.

This is than passed to the (awesome) define api to generate a sandbox on the fly.

https://github.com/babel/website/blob/c9dd1f516985f7267eb58c286789e0c66bc0a21d/js/repl/UriUtils.js#L22-L26

encode.js

const compress = (string: string) =>
  LZString.compressToBase64(string)
    .replace(/\+/g, "-") // Convert '+' to '-'
    .replace(/\//g, "_") // Convert '/' to '_'
    .replace(/=+$/, ""); // Remove ending '='

const decompress = (string: string) =>
  LZString.decompressFromBase64(
    string
      .replace(/-/g, "+") // Convert '-' to '+'
      .replace(/_/g, "/") // Convert '_' to '/'
  );