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Streams API

Category
Network / Connectivity
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 52)
Intent stage
None

Summary

APIs for creating, composing, and consuming streams of data, that map efficiently to low-level I/O primitives, and allow easy composition with built-in backpressure and queuing.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ReadableStream https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WritableStream

Samples: https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/demos/

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