Saving an image stored on s3 using node.js?

Ok, after significant trial and error, I've figured out how to do this. I ended up switching to knox, but presumably, you could use a similar strategy with aws-sdk. This is the kind of solution that makes me say, "There has to be a better way than this," but I'm satisfied with anything that works, at this point.

var imgData = "";
client.getFile(key, function(err, fileRes){
    fileRes.on('data', function(chunk){
        imgData += chunk.toString('binary');
    }).on('end', function(){
        res.set('Content-Type', pic.mime);
        res.set('Content-Length', fileRes.headers['content-length']);
        res.send(new Buffer(imgData, 'binary'));
    });
});

getFile() returns data chunks as buffers. One would think you could just pipe the results straight to front end, but for whatever reason, this was the ONLY way I could get the service to return an image correctly. It feels redundant to write a buffer to a binary string, only to write it back into a buffer, but hey, if it works, it works. If anyone finds a more efficient solution, I would love to hear it.

For people who are still struggling with this issue. Here is the approach I used with native aws-sdk.

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
AWS.config.loadFromPath('./s3_config.json');
var s3Bucket = new AWS.S3( { params: {Bucket: 'myBucket'} } );

inside your router method :- ContentType should be set to the content type of the image file

  buf = new Buffer(req.body.imageBinary.replace(/^data:image\/\w+;base64,/, ""),'base64')
  var data = {
    Key: req.body.userId, 
    Body: buf,
    ContentEncoding: 'base64',
    ContentType: 'image/jpeg'
  };
  s3Bucket.putObject(data, function(err, data){
      if (err) { 
        console.log(err);
        console.log('Error uploading data: ', data); 
      } else {
        console.log('succesfully uploaded the image!');
      }
  });

s3_config.json file is:-

{
  "accessKeyId":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "secretAccessKey":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "region":"us-east-1"
}