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passthrough-counter
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Creates a PassThrough stream that also counts the stream's buffer length.
var Counter = require('passthrough-counter')
var stream = fs.createReadStream('package.json')
var output = fs.createWriteStream('package.json.gz')
stream
.pipe(zlib.createGzip())
.pipe(Counter)
.once('finish', function () {
console.log('final gzipped length is ' + this.length)
})
.pipe(output)
options)new is optional. options is optional and is passed into the Stream.Transform constructor.
The total number of bytes pass through the stream.
You can check this once finish is emitted.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Jonathan Ong me@jongleberry.com
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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The through2 package provides a thin wrapper around Node.js streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise. It allows you to create a transform stream that can modify the data passing through it. Unlike passthrough-counter, through2 does not specifically count bytes but can be used to implement similar functionality with additional code.
The stream-counter package is designed to count the number of bytes passing through a stream. It is similar to passthrough-counter in its primary functionality but offers additional features such as counting objects in object mode.
The byte-stream package provides a way to work with byte streams in Node.js. It includes utilities for counting bytes, transforming data, and more. It offers more comprehensive functionality compared to passthrough-counter, which focuses solely on counting bytes.
FAQs
Get the total buffer length of a stream.
The npm package passthrough-counter receives a total of 353,296 weekly downloads. As such, passthrough-counter popularity was classified as popular.
We found that passthrough-counter 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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