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I had to deal with binary data in a project recently and all the options made my head spin. File, Blob, Buffer, ArrayBuffer, Uint8Array, and so on. Was very co

• mofle 3y ago
  - Blob: Immutable raw data container with a size and MIME type, not directly readable. - File: Like a Blob, but with additional file-specific properties (e.g., filename). - ArrayBuffer: Fixed-length raw binary data in JavaScript, not directly accessible. - Uint8Array: Interface for reading/writing binary data in ArrayBuffer, showing them as 8-bit unsigned integers. - Buffer: Readable/writable raw binary data container in Node.js (subclass of Uint8Array)
  • bakkoting 3y ago
    Nit: "fixed-length" is no longer true as of very recently [1]. [1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-resizablearraybuffer https://github.com/tc39/proposal-resizablearraybuffer
    • pwdisswordfishc 3y ago
      Now it's bounded-length.
  • explaininjs 3y ago
    A File is a Blob, every file is `instanceof Blob`.