Create a jpg image from ArrayBuffer data

image-arraybuffer.js

// Simulate a call to Dropbox or other service that can
// return an image as an ArrayBuffer.
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

// Use JSFiddle logo as a sample image to avoid complicating
// this example with cross-domain issues.
xhr.open( "GET", "http://fiddle.jshell.net/img/logo.png", true );

// Ask for the result as an ArrayBuffer.
xhr.responseType = "arraybuffer";

xhr.onload = function( e ) {
    // Obtain a blob: URL for the image data.
    var arrayBufferView = new Uint8Array( this.response );
    var blob = new Blob( [ arrayBufferView ], { type: "image/jpeg" } );
    var urlCreator = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
    var imageUrl = urlCreator.createObjectURL( blob );
    var img = document.querySelector( "#photo" );
    img.src = imageUrl;
};

xhr.send();

Thanks man. This really saved me. I have a questions. Why does this example use XMLHttpRequest instead of fetch()? I'm assuming that is because the example was written 9 year ago but maybe there is another reason?

Thanks for this!

Is wrapping this.response into Uint8Array necessary? Doc says that ArrayBuffer can also be used as blob part.

Thanks a lot for this