streams 101

Michał Michalczuk

michalczukm.xyz

  • Single threaded
  • Avoid computation
     
  • Delegate to I/O
  • Write as async as possible

How does streams

fit in?

What are streams?

Is it new idea?

And what is the problem?

Michał
Michalczuk

@michalczukm

Senior Software Engineer

Spartez / Atlassian

IT trainer

infoShare Academy

The problem

Streams, streams everywhere

streams you know

const http = require('http');

const hostname = '127.0.0.1';
const port = 3000;

const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
  res.statusCode = 200;
  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
  res.end('Hello World\n');
});

server.listen(port, hostname, () => {
  console.log(`Server running at http://${hostname}:${port}/`);
});
http.IncommingMessage
Readible Stream
http.ServerResponse
Writable Stream

streams you know

process.stdin



process.stdout
Readible Stream
Writable Stream
fs.createReadStream(...)



fs.createWriteStream(...)
Readible Stream
Writable Stream
ls | wc

Output

Input

Pipe

ls | wc
process.stdin.pipe(process.stdout);

Readable stream

Writable stream

          .pipe(        );
process.stdin.pipe(wc);

Examples

Writable
Transform
const { Writable } = require('stream');

const outStream = new Writable({
  write(chunk, encoding, callback) {
    console.log(chunk.toString().toUpperCase());
    callback();
  }
});

process.stdin.pipe(outStream);
Readable
Transform
const { Readable } = require('stream'); 

const inStream = new Readable();
inStream.push('first chunk\n');
inStream.push('second chunk\n');
inStream.push(null);

setTimeout(() => {
    inStream.pipe(process.stdout);
}, 2000);

Streams types

Readable

Writable

Dup lex

Trans form

Duplex
Transform
const { Duplex } = require('stream');

const inoutStream = new Duplex({
  write(chunk, encoding, callback) {
    console.log(chunk.toString().toUpperCase());
    callback();
  },

  read(size) {
  }
});

inoutStream.push('first chunk\n');
inoutStream.push('second chunk\n');
inoutStream.push(null);

process.stdin.pipe(inoutStream).pipe(process.stdout);
Transform
Transform
const { Transform } = require('stream');

const upperCaseTr = new Transform({
  transform(chunk, encoding, callback) {
    this.push(chunk.toString().toUpperCase());
    callback();
  }
});

process.stdin
  .pipe(upperCaseTr)
  .pipe(process.stdout);

 

 

 

 

where to use streams?

Real-life examples

Short summary

Links

Questions time

Feedback?

Yes please

Michał Michalczuk

michalczukm.xyz

Thank you!

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