read-entire-stream

Reads an entire stream's contents into a buffer.

Requires Node.js 16+

Why

There are other options. Why this one?

A brief survey of NPM packages that more or less do this were:

• Antiquated and unmaintained
• Overly verbose
• Included one or more dependencies of unknown security status
• Do not support ES6

This package has no dependencies and was written with ES6 in mind.

In a mere 7 lines of code, it will take any Node.js ReadableStream and return a Promise that resolves to a Node.js Buffer.

Installation

With NPM:

$ npm install --save read-entire-stream

With Yarn:

$ yarn add read-entire-stream

Usage

import readEntireStream from 'read-entire-stream'

// ...

const buf = await readEntireStream(stream)

Demo

See bin/echo

$ echo "Hello, world" | bin/echo
Hello, world

License

MIT License