Monday, 10 January 2022

How to use ES8 async/await with streams?

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.

var fs = require('fs');
var crypto = require('crypto');

// the file you want to get the hash    
var fd = fs.createReadStream('/some/file/name.txt');
var hash = crypto.createHash('sha1');
hash.setEncoding('hex');

fd.on('end', function() {
    hash.end();
    console.log(hash.read()); // the desired sha1sum
});

// read all file and pipe it (write it) to the hash object
fd.pipe(hash);

But is it possible to convert this to using ES8 async/await instead of using the callback as seen above, but while still keeping the efficiency of using streams?



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