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Stub TypeScript definitions entry for tar, which provides its own types definitions
This is a stub types definition for @types/tar (https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar#readme).
tar provides its own type definitions, so you don't need @types/tar installed!
node-tar is the core package for handling tar archives in Node.js. It provides functionalities for creating, extracting, and listing tar archives. @types/tar provides TypeScript definitions for this package.
tar-stream is a lower-level package for creating and extracting tar streams. It provides more granular control over the tar archive creation and extraction process compared to node-tar.
yauzl is a package for handling zip archives, which is a different format from tar. It provides functionalities for reading and extracting zip files, similar to what node-tar does for tar files.
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Stub TypeScript definitions entry for tar, which provides its own types definitions
The npm package @types/tar receives a total of 787,165 weekly downloads. As such, @types/tar popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @types/tar demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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