How to use ES8 async/await with streams?

Question

In https://stackoverflow.com/a/18658613/779159 is an example of how to calculate the md5 of a file using the built-in crypto library and streams.

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Answer 1

If you are using node version >= v10.0.0 then you can use stream.pipeline and util.promisify.

const fs = require('fs');
const crypto = require('crypto');
const util = require('util');
const stream = require('stream');

const pipeline = util.promisify(stream.pipeline);

const hash = crypto.createHash('sha1');
hash.setEncoding('hex');

async function run() {
  await pipeline(
    fs.createReadStream('/some/file/name.txt'),
    hash
  );
  console.log('Pipeline succeeded');
}

run().catch(console.error);