How to convert uint8 Array to base64 Encoded String?

Solution 1:

If your data may contain multi-byte sequences (not a plain ASCII sequence) and your browser has TextDecoder, then you should use that to decode your data (specify the required encoding for the TextDecoder):

var u8 = new Uint8Array([65, 66, 67, 68]);
var decoder = new TextDecoder('utf8');
var b64encoded = btoa(decoder.decode(u8));

If you need to support browsers that do not have TextDecoder (currently just IE and Edge), then the best option is to use a TextDecoder polyfill.

If your data contains plain ASCII (not multibyte Unicode/UTF-8) then there is a simple alternative using String.fromCharCode that should be fairly universally supported:

var ascii = new Uint8Array([65, 66, 67, 68]);
var b64encoded = btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, ascii));

And to decode the base64 string back to a Uint8Array:

var u8_2 = new Uint8Array(atob(b64encoded).split("").map(function(c) {
    return c.charCodeAt(0); }));

If you have very large array buffers then the apply may fail and you may need to chunk the buffer (based on the one posted by @RohitSengar). Again, note that this is only correct if your buffer only contains non-multibyte ASCII characters:

function Uint8ToString(u8a){
  var CHUNK_SZ = 0x8000;
  var c = [];
  for (var i=0; i < u8a.length; i+=CHUNK_SZ) {
    c.push(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, u8a.subarray(i, i+CHUNK_SZ)));
  }
  return c.join("");
}
// Usage
var u8 = new Uint8Array([65, 66, 67, 68]);
var b64encoded = btoa(Uint8ToString(u8));

Solution 2:

If you are using Node.js then you can use this code to convert Uint8Array to base64

var b64 = Buffer.from(u8).toString('base64');

Solution 3:

Very simple solution and test for JavaScript!

ToBase64 = function (u8) {
    return btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, u8));
}

FromBase64 = function (str) {
    return atob(str).split('').map(function (c) { return c.charCodeAt(0); });
}

var u8 = new Uint8Array(256);
for (var i = 0; i < 256; i++)
    u8[i] = i;

var b64 = ToBase64(u8);
console.debug(b64);
console.debug(FromBase64(b64));