How to easily read all data from a ReadableStream?

const chunks = [];
for await (let chunk of readable) {
  chunks.push(chunk);
}
console.log(Buffer.concat(chunks));

Async iterator requires Node.js >=10.0.

So, for example, reading a file would be as easy as:

const fs = require("fs");

async function readFile(filename) {
  const readable = fs.createReadStream(filename);
  const chunks = [];
  for await (let chunk of readable) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  }
  console.log(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString());
}

readFile("./tsconfig.json");

Comments

[Philipp Grigoryev]

You da man! Thank you so much, I was desperate to understand how to use this readable in Promise world

[Luciano Mammino]

A new way to do this (Node.js 16+) is by using the built-in stream/consumers library.

This one allows to easily accumulate binary data, JSON data and text data from any Readable stream

Still mostly unknown, but really convenient