length-prefixed-stream

length-prefixed-stream

Streaming equivalent of length-prefixed-message. This module allow you to send buffers with a varint length prefix to ensure that they will arrive unpartioned

npm install length-prefixed-stream

Usage

var lpstream = require('length-prefixed-stream')

var encode = lpstream.encode() // create an encode stream to send data
var decode = lpstream.decode() // create an decode stream to receive data

encode.write('hello world') // send "hello world"

decode.on('data', function(data) {
  console.log(data.toString()) // will always print "hello world"
})

encode.pipe(decode) // for testing just pipe to our selves

License

MIT