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length-prefixed-stream
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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
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
transformStream = lpstream.encode()
Creates a new encoder transform stream.
transformStream = lpstream.decode()
Creates a new decoder transform stream.
MIT
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Streaming length prefixed buffers
The npm package length-prefixed-stream receives a total of 2,468 weekly downloads. As such, length-prefixed-stream popularity was classified as popular.
We found that length-prefixed-stream demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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