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

You could try something like this, and upload it to S3 inside the end event.

var doc = new pdfkit();

var MemoryStream = require('memorystream');
var memStream = new MemoryStream(null, {
   readable : false
});

doc.pipe(memStream);

doc.on('end', function () {
   var buffer = Buffer.concat(memStream.queue);
   awsservice.putS3Object(buffer, fileName, fileType, folder).then(function () { }, reject);
})