Thread by @erickwendel_

wowwww look at those new functions meant to help us consume @Nodejs Streams as JSON, text, blob, and much more! 😱🎉

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The Node.js project is on fire! Every day we see new functions, new shortcuts, and design improvements.

The Node.js project has been receiving a lot of new utility functions and this new set will help us save time when working with Node.js Streams

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Now Node.js itself will consume the whole data stream for you and then try parsing to the chosen format

Thanks to @jasnell for implementing it! 🤩

In the image below, I'm reading data from a file, but it'd also work for Web APIs, Net Sockets, Strings, Buffers, and much more

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Notice that the "before" approach in the image would also be replaced by the new Streams operators ".toArray" if you're using the Node.js v18+:

JSON.parse((await file.toArray()).join(''))

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Instead of piping, gathering, and then parsing data in memory the process will be much easier using this new API, what do you think?

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Tell me, what utility do you think Node.js is still missing? Some tasks that you repetitively do to create some functionality on your systems that you wish it'd be natively on the Node.js core

#tips #nodejs #streams #techthread #nodejsevolving #100daysofcode #javascript

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