as-buffer

Read stream and other types as buffer*

const read = require('as-buffer');
 
const stream = fs.createReadStream('./photo.png');
 
read(stream, { maxsize: 1e6 }) // with a max-size, default to 1e7, 10MiB
    .then(buf => console.log('read', buf))
    .catch(e => console.log('file too large'));
 

*: exception of object-mode streams that are returned as array

like https://github.com/stream-utils/stream-to-array but simpler