What am I supposed to do with Buffers in Node?

I'm reading through "Professional Node.js" and I'm not sure what the point is of the buffers.Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding Buffers are sort of like a storage area or queue where "tasks" are placed that are going to be done.And it can store different types of data like base64 or binary data?I ran some example code:var utf8String = 'my string'; var buf = new Buffer(utf8String); var base64String = buf.toString('base64')console.log(base64String);'my string' is equal to: bXkgc3RyaW5nBut... so what? What kind of use does this have for me?

Submitted December 14, 2015 at 01:52AM by fastpenguin91