A Blob implementation in Node.js, originally from node-fetch.
Use the built-in Blob
in Node.js 18 and later.
Updating from 2 to 3 should be a breeze since there is not many changes to the blob specification. The major cause of a major release is coding standards. - internal WeakMaps was replaced with private fields - internal Buffer.from was replaced with TextEncoder/Decoder - internal buffers was replaced with Uint8Arrays - CommonJS was replaced with ESM - The node stream returned by calling blob.stream()
was replaced with whatwg streams - (Read "Differences from other blobs" for more info.)
buffer.Blob
(Added in: v15.7.0) and browser native Blob this polyfilled version can't be sent via PostMessageBlobDataItem
created in from.js
that wraps a file path into a blob-like item and read lazily (nodejs plans to implement this as well)blob.stream()
is the most noticeable differences. It returns a WHATWG stream now. to keep it as a node stream you would have to do:import {Readable} from 'stream' const stream = Readable.from(blob.stream())
// Ways to import import { Blob } from 'fetch-blob' import { File } from 'fetch-blob/file.js' const { Blob } = await import('fetch-blob') // Ways to read the blob: const blob = new Blob(['hello, world']) await blob.text() await blob.arrayBuffer() for await (let chunk of blob.stream()) { ... } blob.stream().getReader().read() blob.stream().getReader({mode: 'byob'}).read(view)Blob part backed up by filesystem
fetch-blob/from.js
comes packed with tools to convert any filepath into either a Blob or a File It will not read the content into memory. It will only stat the file for last modified date and file size.
// The default export is sync and use fs.stat to retrieve size & last modified as a blob import {File, Blob, blobFrom, blobFromSync, fileFrom, fileFromSync} from 'fetch-blob/from.js' const fsFile = fileFromSync('./2-GiB-file.bin', 'application/octet-stream') const fsBlob = await blobFrom('./2-GiB-file.mp4') // Not a 4 GiB memory snapshot, just holds references // points to where data is located on the disk const blob = new Blob([fsFile, fsBlob, 'memory', new Uint8Array(10)]) console.log(blob.size) // ~4 GiB
blobFrom|blobFromSync|fileFrom|fileFromSync(path, [mimetype])
(requires FinalizationRegistry - node v14.6)
When using both createTemporaryBlob
and createTemporaryFile
then you will write data to the temporary folder in their respective OS. The arguments can be anything that fsPromises.writeFile supports. NodeJS v14.17.0+ also supports writing (async)Iterable streams and passing in a AbortSignal, so both NodeJS stream and whatwg streams are supported. When the file have been written it will return a Blob/File handle with a references to this temporary location on the disk. When you no longer have a references to this Blob/File anymore and it have been GC then it will automatically be deleted.
This files are also unlinked upon exiting the process.
import { createTemporaryBlob, createTemporaryFile } from 'fetch-blob/from.js' const req = new Request('https://httpbin.org/image/png') const res = await fetch(req) const type = res.headers.get('content-type') const signal = req.signal let blob = await createTemporaryBlob(res.body, { type, signal }) // const file = createTemporaryBlob(res.body, 'img.png', { type, signal }) blob = undefined // loosing references will delete the file from disk
createTemporaryBlob(data, { type, signal })
createTemporaryFile(data, FileName, { type, signal, lastModified })
Our Blob & File class are more generic then any other polyfills in the way that it can accept any blob look-a-like item An example of this is that our blob implementation can be constructed with parts coming from BlobDataItem (aka a filepath) or from buffer.Blob, It dose not have to implement all the methods - just enough that it can be read/understood by our Blob implementation. The minium requirements is that it has Symbol.toStringTag
, size
, slice()
, stream()
methods (the stream method can be as simple as being a sync or async iterator that yields Uint8Arrays. If you then wrap it in our Blob or File new Blob([blobDataItem])
then you get all of the other methods that should be implemented in a blob or file (aka: text(), arrayBuffer() and type and a ReadableStream)
An example of this could be to create a file or blob like item coming from a remote HTTP request. Or from a DataBase
See the MDN documentation and tests for more details of how to use the Blob.
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