A tiny function for casting a Buffer to a Uint8Array.
- 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.
npm install --save buffer2uint8import buffer2uint8 from 'buffer2uint8';
const buffer = new Buffer ( 'hello' );
const uint8 = buffer2uint8 ( buffer ); // => Uint8Array (5) [ 104, 101, 108, 108, 111 ]MIT © Fabio Spampinato