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Converting a Byte Array to String with Buffer in Node.JS

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If you're working with Node.JS, you may have encountered Buffers which are a way to store binary data as a sequence of its bytes.

But what happens when you have serialised it, and you want to convert it back to a String?

Let us assume that we have the following data:

[
  104, 116, 116, 112, 115,
  58, 47, 47, 119, 119,
  119, 46, 106, 118, 116,
  46, 109, 101
]

We can use Buffer.from to read in the bytes, and then return it as a String:

const bytes = [
  104, 116, 116, 112, 115,
  58, 47, 47, 119, 119,
  119, 46, 106, 118, 116,
  46, 109, 101
];
console.log(new Buffer.from(bytes).toString());
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