Buffer2Uint8

A tiny function for casting a Buffer to a Uint8Array.

Details

• The underlying ArrayBuffer is not copied, a new view into it is created.
• While Buffer extends Uint8Array the two don't work identically, and some times you actually just want to work with the real Uint8Array.

Install

npm install buffer2uint8

Usage

import buffer2uint8 from 'buffer2uint8';

// Let's convert a Buffer to a Uint8Array

const buffer = new Buffer ( 'hello' );
const uint8 = buffer2uint8 ( buffer ); // => Uint8Array (5) [ 104, 101, 108, 108, 111 ]

License

MIT © Fabio Spampinato