JavaScript To Convert Bytes To MB, KB, Etc

bytesToSize.js

// from http://scratch99.com/web-development/javascript/convert-bytes-to-mb-kb/
function bytesToSize(bytes) {
    var sizes = ['Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB'];
    if (bytes == 0) return 'n/a';
    var i = parseInt(Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024)));
    if (i == 0) return bytes + ' ' + sizes[i];
    return (bytes / Math.pow(1024, i)).toFixed(1) + ' ' + sizes[i];
};

Nice

ES6 and airbnb's eslint compliant version:

function bytesToSize(bytes) {
  const sizes = ['Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB']
  if (bytes === 0) return 'n/a'
  const i = parseInt(Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024)), 10)
  if (i === 0) return `${bytes} ${sizes[i]})`
  return `${(bytes / (1024 ** i)).toFixed(1)} ${sizes[i]}`
}

function bytesToSize(bytes) {
const sizes = ['Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB']
if (bytes === 0) return 'n/a'
const i = parseInt(Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024)), 10)
if (i === 0) return ${bytes} ${sizes[i]})
return ${(bytes / (1024 ** i)).toFixed(1)} ${sizes[i]}
}

With little typo fixed on line 5:

function bytesToSize(bytes) {
  const sizes = ['Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB']
  if (bytes === 0) return 'n/a'
  const i = parseInt(Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024)), 10)
  if (i === 0) return `${bytes} ${sizes[i]}`
  return `${(bytes / (1024 ** i)).toFixed(1)} ${sizes[i]}`
}

Some may doesn't like having a seperator so:

function bytesToSize(bytes, seperator = "") {
  const sizes = ['Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB']
  if (bytes == 0) return 'n/a'
  const i = parseInt(Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024)), 10)
  if (i === 0) return `${bytes}${seperator}${sizes[i]}`
  return `${(bytes / (1024 ** i)).toFixed(1)}${seperator}${sizes[i]}`
}

console.log( bytesToSize(2659633) ); // 2.5MB
console.log( bytesToSize(2659633, " ") ); // 2.5 MB
console.log( bytesToSize(2659633, "-") ); // 2.5-MB

I had a need to format negative values, but Math.log(x) returns NaN if x is negative, so I pass bytes through Math.abs() first.

function bytesToSize(bytes) {
  const sizes = ['Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB'];
  if (bytes === 0) return 'n/a';
  const i = parseInt(Math.floor(Math.log(Math.abs(bytes)) / Math.log(1024)), 10);
  if (i === 0) return `${bytes} ${sizes[i]})`;
  return `${(bytes / (1024 ** i)).toFixed(1)} ${sizes[i]}`;
}

console.log(bytesToSize(1234567)); // 1.2 MB
console.log(bytesToSize(-1234567)); // -1.2 MB

@jedfoster I used your code, but just pointing out something... If you're only rendering "Bytes", there's a dangling closing parenthesis.

e.g. "Bytes)"

• 1 redundant line removed
• added suffix param
• fixed error if size more then 1023 TB

function prettySize(bytes, separator = '', postFix = '') {
    if (bytes) {
        const sizes = ['Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB'];
        const i = Math.min(parseInt(Math.floor(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024)), 10), sizes.length - 1);
        return `${(bytes / (1024 ** i)).toFixed(i ? 1 : 0)}${separator}${sizes[i]}${postFix}`;
    }
    return 'n/a';
}

thank you