30-seconds-of-code/snippets/atob.md

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Decode Base64 encoded string	node,string	beginner	blog_images/thread.jpg	2018-01-17T21:43:21+02:00	2020-09-15T16:28:04+03:00

Decodes a string of data which has been encoded using base-64 encoding.

• Create a Buffer for the given string with base-64 encoding.
• Use Buffer.prototype.toString() to return the decoded string.

const atob = str => Buffer.from(str, 'base64').toString('binary');

atob('Zm9vYmFy'); // 'foobar'