read-chunk
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Read a chunk from a file
Because the built-in way requires way too much boilerplate.
npm install read-chunk
import {readChunk} from 'read-chunk';
// foo.txt => hello
await readChunk('foo.txt', {length: 3, startPosition: 1});
//=> 'ell'
Returns a Promise<Uint8Array> with the read chunk.
Returns a Uint8Array with the read chunk.
Type: string
Type: number
The number of bytes to read.
Type: number
The position to start reading from.
The 'fs-extra' package extends the native Node.js 'fs' module with additional methods, including methods for reading and writing files. While it does not specifically focus on reading chunks, it provides a more comprehensive set of file system utilities.
The 'node-buffer' package provides utilities for working with binary data directly in Node.js. It allows for more granular control over reading and writing data, including reading specific chunks of a file.
The 'file-type' package is used to detect the file type of a buffer or stream. It often uses 'read-chunk' internally to read the first few bytes of a file for type detection. While its primary focus is on file type detection, it shares the functionality of reading specific chunks of a file.
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Read a chunk from a file
The npm package read-chunk receives a total of 605,160 weekly downloads. As such, read-chunk popularity was classified as popular.
We found that read-chunk demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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