The Bun.file()
function accepts a path and returns a BunFile
instance. The BunFile
class extends Blob
and allows you to lazily read the file in a variety of formats.
To read the file into a Uint8Array
instance, retrieve the contents of the BunFile
with .bytes()
.
const path = "/path/to/package.json";
const file = Bun.file(path);
const byteArray = await file.bytes();
byteArray[0]; // first byteArray
byteArray.length; // length of byteArray
Refer to API > Binary data > Typed arrays for more information on working with Uint8Array
and other binary data formats in Bun.