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

My code to return a base64 for pdfkit:

import * as PDFDocument from 'pdfkit'
import getStream from 'get-stream'

const pdf = {
  createPdf: async (text: string) => {
    const doc = new PDFDocument()
    doc.fontSize(10).text(text, 50, 50)
    doc.end()

    const data = await getStream.buffer(doc)
    let b64 = Buffer.from(data).toString('base64')
    return b64
  }
}

export default pdf