Why are Buffers needed?

Buffers allow Node.js to efficiently process files, media, network packets, and other binary data.

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Buffers are memory structures used to store and manipulate raw binary data.

Buffers are used in file systems, networking, Streams, media processing, encryption, and compression.

Strings store text data, while Buffers store raw binary data as bytes.

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