nodejsHow to read stream to Buffer
const fs = require('fs');
let input = fs.createReadStream('/var/www/examples/test.txt');
input.on('data', buf => {
console.log(buf);
});ctrl + crequire('fs')library to work with file system | fs.createReadStream(create stream to read data from (file in our case) |
/var/www/examples/test.txtpath to file to stream read | .on('data'handle date reading from stream |
bufbuffer gets data chunk read from stream | |
Usage example
const fs = require('fs');
let input = fs.createReadStream('/var/www/examples/test.txt');
input.on('data', buf => {
console.log(buf);
});output
<Buffer 68 69 21 0a>
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