to-buffer

Pass in a string, array, Buffer, Data View, or Uint8Array, and get a Buffer back.

npm install to-buffer

Usage

var toBuffer = require('to-buffer');

console.log(toBuffer('hi')); // <Buffer 68 69>
console.log(toBuffer(Buffer('hi'))); // <Buffer 68 69>
console.log(toBuffer('6869', 'hex')); // <Buffer 68 69>
console.log(toBuffer(43)); // throws

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

v1.2.1 - 2025-06-19

Commits

• [Fix] handle non-Uint8Arrays in node < 3 7f8a881
• [Tests] add coverage 286c96a
• [Fix] provide a fallback for engines without ArrayBuffer.isView e336166
• [Fix] correct error message b45247e

v1.2.0 - 2025-06-17

Commits

• [New] replace with implementation from cipher-base 970adb5
• [Tests] migrate from travis to GHA 8084393
• [eslint] fix whitespace a62e651
• [eslint] fix semicolon usage 4d85c63
• [meta] add auto-changelog aa0279c
• [readme] update URLs, add badges ff77d90
• [lint] switch to eslint e45f467
• [Fix] validate that arrays contain valid byte values c2fb75e
• [Fix] restore previous implementation Array behavior cb93b75
• [Tests] add nyc for coverage ab7026e
• [Refactor] use safe-buffer.from instead of buffer-from 8e01307
• [Fix] Replace Buffer.from with buffer-from d652e54
• [Tests] use deepEqual over same alias 66a5548
• [meta] add npmignore 90ce602
• [Tests] move into a test dir, update tape 08aea81
• Only apps should have lockfiles 16ccceb
• [Tests] add coverage d2cba2e
• [meta] update description 2cf2a20
• [Fix] add safe-buffer, missing from 970adb5 d9a0dea
• [meta] temporarily limit support to node v0.10 8dca458
• [meta] add missing engines.node 35bdfcb
• [Dev Deps] add missing peer dep 220143f
• [meta] add sideEffects flag cd37473

v1.1.1 - 2018-04-26

Commits

• use Buffer.from when avail eebe20e

v1.1.0 - 2017-04-12

Merged

• Fix typo #2

Commits

• support arrays as well ef98c82

v1.0.1 - 2016-02-15

Commits

• fix desc 7d50a7c

v1.0.0 - 2016-02-15

Commits

• first commit 8361941
• add travis de911b5