fs read and write streams based on minipass
npm install fs-minipassFilesystem streams based on minipass.
4 classes are exported:
- ReadStream
- ReadStreamSync
- WriteStream
- WriteStreamSync
When using ReadStreamSync, all of the data is made available
immediately upon consuming the stream. Nothing is buffered in memory
when the stream is constructed. If the stream is piped to a writer,
then it will synchronously read() and emit data into the writer as
fast as the writer can consume it. (That is, it will respect
backpressure.) If you call stream.read() then it will read the
entire file and return the contents.
When using WriteStreamSync, every write is flushed to the file
synchronously. If your writes all come in a single tick, then it'll
write it all out in a single tick. It's as synchronous as you are.
The async versions work much like their node builtin counterparts,
with the exception of introducing significantly less Stream machinery
overhead.
It's just streams, you pipe them or read() them or write() to them.
``js`
const fsm = require('fs-minipass')
const readStream = new fsm.ReadStream('file.txt')
const writeStream = new fsm.WriteStream('output.txt')
writeStream.write('some file header or whatever\n')
readStream.pipe(writeStream)
Path string is required, but somewhat irrelevant if an open file
descriptor is passed in as an option.
Options:
- fd Pass in a numeric file descriptor, if the file is already open.readSize
- The size of reads to do, defaults to 16MBsize
- The size of the file, if known. Prevents zero-byte read()autoClose
call at the end.
- Set to false to prevent the file descriptor from being
closed when the file is done being read.
Path string is required, but somewhat irrelevant if an open file
descriptor is passed in as an option.
Options:
- fd Pass in a numeric file descriptor, if the file is already open.mode
- The mode to create the file with. Defaults to 0o666.start
- The position in the file to start reading. If notautoClose
specified, then the file will start writing at position zero, and be
truncated by default.
- Set to false to prevent the file descriptor from beingflags
closed when the stream is ended.
- Flags to use when opening the file. Irrelevant if fd is'a'
passed in, since file won't be opened in that case. Defaults to
if a pos is specified, or 'w'` otherwise.