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Streams API: WritableStream close()

Category

JavaScript

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 81)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

Add a close() method to WritableStream objects. This permits closing the stream if it is unlocked. It is directly equivalent to getting a writer, using the writer to close the stream, and then unlocking it again.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/#ws-close
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=998377

Explainers: https://github.com/whatwg/streams/issues/1007

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