whatwg/streams resource

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The WHATWG Streams Standard, a living web specification defining APIs for creating, composing, and consuming streams of data (readable, writable, and transform streams). The repository hosts the spec text, tests, and a JavaScript reference implementation.

Use cases

• understand how ReadableStream and WritableStream work in the browser
• look up the spec behavior of stream backpressure and piping
• implement streams APIs in a JavaScript runtime
• contribute fixes or clarifications to the Streams Standard
• learn how fetch response bodies expose streams
• check normative requirements for transform streams

When to choose

• you need the authoritative definition of web stream APIs
• you are implementing streams in a JS engine or runtime
• you want to contribute to or track the web streams spec

When to avoid

• you want a ready-made library for stream processing rather than a specification
• you need Node.js-specific stream documentation
• you want tutorials rather than normative spec text

Facets

learning-resource · maturity active

documentation developer-tools web-development apis documentation browser web-standards whatwg streams specification living-standard reference-implementation web-server nodejs

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