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JavaScript Node.js Basics 2017 Building a Command Line Application Getting the Response Body

Tennyson Horn
Tennyson Horn
14,660 Points

Why not just assign process.stdout.write(data) to body? It returns an object instead of a buffer.

Yeah.

2 Answers

Routine Poutine
Routine Poutine
26,050 Points

What's the difference between an object and a buffer? Actually, I know what an object is, but I do not know what a buffer is.