Converting between strings and ArrayBuffers

Question

Is there a commonly accepted technique for efficiently converting JavaScript strings to ArrayBuffers and vice-versa? Specifically, I\'d like to be able to write the contents

Answer 1

For node.js and also for browsers using https://github.com/feross/buffer

function ab2str(buf: Uint8Array) {
  return Buffer.from(buf).toString('base64');
}
function str2ab(str: string) {
  return new Uint8Array(Buffer.from(str, 'base64'))
}

Note: Solutions here didn't work for me. I need to support node.js and browsers and just serialize UInt8Array to a string. I could serialize it as a number[] but that occupies unnecessary space. With that solution I don't need to worry about encodings since it's base64. Just in case other people struggle with the same problem... My two cents