“Streams are Node's best and most misunderstood idea”
Dominic Tarr
Streams
Readable Streams
HTTP responses, on the client
HTTP requests, on the server
fs read streams
zlib streams
crypto streams
TCP sockets
child process stdout and stderr
process.stdin
Writable Streams
HTTP requests, on the client
HTTP responses, on the server
fs write streams
zlib streams
crypto streams
TCP sockets
child process stdin
process.stdout,process.stderr
What are streams?
Streams
Collections of data that might not be available all at once and don't have to fit in memory.
Types of Streams
All streams are
EventEmitters
src.pipe(dst);
Piping
netstat -tulpn | grep 80
Streams
Readable Streams
Events
- data
- end
- error
- close
- readable Functions
- pipe(), unpipe()
- read(), unshift(), resume()
- pause(), isPaused()
- setEncoding()
