Node js, piping pdfkit to a memory stream

Question

I am using pdfkit (https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit) on my node server, typically creating pdf files, and then uploading them to s3. The problem is that pdfkit examples pip

Answer 1

There's no need to use an intermediate memory stream¹ – just pipe the pdfkit output stream directly into a HTTP upload stream.

In my experience, the AWS SDK is garbage when it comes to working with streams, so I usually use request.

var upload = request({
    method: 'PUT',
    url: 'https://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/doc.pdf',
    aws: { bucket: 'bucket', key: ..., secret: ... }
});

doc.pipe(upload);

^{1 - in fact, it is usually undesirable to use a memory stream because that means buffering the entire thing in RAM, which is exactly what streams are supposed to avoid!}