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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
Pipe a stream to a StreamSink
, and then you can create a ReadableStream
,
String
, or Buffer
from the StreamSink
.
var StreamSink = require('streamsink');
var sink = new StreamSink();
fs.createReadStream("foo.txt").pipe(sink);
sink.on('finish', function() {
// sink has now buffered foo.txt
sink.createReadStream().pipe(someDestination);
// or use toString([encoding], [start], [end])
console.log(sink.toString('utf8'));
// or use toBuffer()
sink.toBuffer();
});
// you can also create instances from a list of buffers
var sink = StreamSink.fromBufferList([new Buffer("aoeu"), new Buffer("foo")]);
FAQs
pipe to a buffer, then create readable streams from it
The npm package streamsink receives a total of 86,807 weekly downloads. As such, streamsink popularity was classified as popular.
We found that streamsink 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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