readable-stream
Node.js core streams for userland
npm install --save readable-stream
This package is a mirror of the streams implementations in Node.js.
Full documentation may be found on the Node.js website.
If you want to guarantee a stable streams base, regardless of what version of Node you, or the users of your libraries are using, use readable-stream only and avoid the “stream” module in Node-core, for background see this blogpost.
As of version 2.0.0 readable-stream uses semantic versioning.
Version 3.x.x
v3.x.x of readable-stream
is a cut from Node 10. This
version supports Node 6, 8, and 10, as well as evergreen browsers, IE 11
and latest Safari. The breaking changes introduced by v3 are composed by
the combined breaking changes in Node v9 and Node v10, as
follows:
- Error codes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13310, https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13291, https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16589, https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15042, https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15665, https://github.com/nodejs/readable-stream/pull/344
- ‘readable’ have precedence over flowing https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18994
- make virtual methods errors consistent https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18813
- updated streams error handling https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18438
- writable.end should return this. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18780
- readable continues to read when push(’’) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18211
- add custom inspect to BufferList https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17907
- always defer ‘readable’ with nextTick https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17979
Version 2.x.x
v2.x.x of readable-stream
is a cut of the stream module
from Node 8 (there have been no semver-major changes from Node 4 to 8).
This version supports all Node.js versions from 0.8, as well as
evergreen browsers and IE 10 & 11.
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Usage
You can swap your require('stream')
with
require('readable-stream')
without any changes, if you are
just using one of the main classes and functions.
const {
,
Readable,
Writable,
Transform,
Duplex,
pipeline
finished= require('readable-stream') }
Note that require('stream')
will return
Stream
, while require('readable-stream')
will
return Readable
. We discourage using whatever is exported
directly, but rather use one of the properties as shown in the example
above.
Streams Working Group
readable-stream
is maintained by the Streams Working
Group, which oversees the development and maintenance of the Streams API
within Node.js. The responsibilities of the Streams Working Group
include:
- Addressing stream issues on the Node.js issue tracker.
- Authoring and editing stream documentation within the Node.js project.
- Reviewing changes to stream subclasses within the Node.js project.
- Redirecting changes to streams from the Node.js project to this project.
- Assisting in the implementation of stream providers within Node.js.
- Recommending versions of
readable-stream
to be included in Node.js. - Messaging about the future of streams to give the community advance notice of changes.
- Calvin Metcalf (@calvinmetcalf)
<calvin.metcalf@gmail.com>
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