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it-tar
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it-tar is a streaming tar parser and generator. It operates purely using async iterables which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.
$ npm i it-tar
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it-tar is a streaming tar parser (and maybe a generator in the future) and nothing else. It operates purely using async iterables which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.
The npm package it-tar receives a total of 15,404 weekly downloads. As such, it-tar popularity was classified as popular.
We found that it-tar demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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