it-tar is a streaming tar parser (and maybe a generator in the future) and nothing else. It operates purely using async iterables which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.
npm install it-tar

> it-tar is a streaming tar parser and generator. It operates purely using async iterables which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.
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$ npm i it-tar
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