Namespace "stream"

A stream is an abstract interface for working with streaming data in Node.js. The stream module provides an API for implementing the stream interface.

There are many stream objects provided by Node.js. For instance, a request to an HTTP server and process.stdout are both stream instances.

Streams can be readable, writable, or both. All streams are instances of EventEmitter.

To access the stream module:

const stream = require('stream');

The stream module is useful for creating new types of stream instances. It is usually not necessary to use the stream module to consume streams.

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