Encoding binary data as a base64 string using Node.js
If you have binary data that you need to encode to pass to the client as JSON, you can convert it to base64, a common means on the Internet to represent eight-bit values in solely printable characters. Node.js provides the Buffer object and a base64 encoder and decoder for this task.
How to do it…
First, you'll allocate a buffer, and then you'll convert it to a string, indicating that the string you want should be base64-encoded, like this:
var buffer = newBuffer('Hello world');
var string = buffer.toString('base64');How it works…
The Node.js Buffer class wraps a collection of octets outside the Node.js V8 runtime heap. It's used in Node.js anytime you need to work with purely binary data. The ...
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