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through stream that buffers streams into batches limited by a cumulative byte size limit
A stream that you write buffers or strings to, and it emits buffers at or bellow your byte limit.
var batcher = require('byte-stream')
// batch until a byte limit
var batchedStream = batcher(limit);
// or batch until a given time or byte limit
var batchedStream = batcher({time:1000, limit:limit})
Returns a stream. You can .pipe other streams to it or .write them yourself (if you .write don't forget to .end)
For more examples of usage see test.js
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through stream that buffers streams into batches limited by a cumulative byte size limit
The npm package byte-stream receives a total of 1,914 weekly downloads. As such, byte-stream popularity was classified as popular.
We found that byte-stream demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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