How do I upload a base64 encoded image (string) directly to a Google Cloud Storage bucket using Node.js?

Currently, I am using the @google-cloud/storage NPM package to upload a file directly to a Google Cloud Storage bucket. This requires some trickery as I only have the image's base64 encoded string. I have to:

• Decode the string
• Save it as a file
• Send the file path to the below script to upload to Google Cloud Storage
• Delete the local file

I'd like to avoid storing the file in the filesystem altogether since I am using Google App Engine and I don't want to overload the filesystem / leave junk files there if the delete operation doesn't work for whatever reason. This is what my upload script looks like right now:

// Convert the base64 string back to an image to upload into the Google Cloud Storage bucket
var base64Img = require('base64-img');
var filePath = base64Img.imgSync(req.body.base64Image, 'user-uploads', 'image-name');

// Instantiate the GCP Storage instance
var gcs = require('@google-cloud/storage')(),
    bucket = gcs.bucket('google-cloud-storage-bucket-name');

// Upload the image to the bucket
bucket.upload(__dirname.slice(0, -15) + filePath, {
    destination: 'profile-images/576dba00c1346abe12fb502a-original.jpg',
    public: true,
    validation: 'md5'
}, function(error, file) {

    if (error) {
        sails.log.error(error);
    }

    return res.ok('Image uploaded');
});

Is there anyway to directly upload the base64 encoded string of the image instead of having to convert it to a file and then upload using the path?

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