@types/tar
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TypeScript definitions for tar
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This package contains type definitions for tar (https://github.com/npm/node-tar).
Files were exported from https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/tar.
These definitions were written by Maxime LUCE, and Connor Peet.
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 753,250 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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