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Better Error Handling with pipeline()

Explore how to improve error handling in Node.js streams by using the pipeline() helper function. Learn to build and manage complex data pipelines efficiently while ensuring proper error and resource management, enabling safer and more maintainable stream processing.

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Handling errors manually in a pipeline is not just cumbersome, but also error prone—definitely something we should avoid if we can!

Luckily, the core stream package offers us an excellent utility function that can make building pipelines a much safer and more enjoyable practice, which is the pipeline() helper function.

The syntax for the pipeline() function is ...

pipeline(stream1, stream2, stream3, ... , cb)
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