Piping Patterns: Forking Streams
Explore the forking stream pattern in Node.js by piping a single readable stream into multiple writable streams. Understand how to manage data flow, handle backpressure, and apply transformations with examples like generating multiple checksums from one source. This lesson helps you efficiently send data to multiple destinations while managing stream behavior and potential caveats.
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We can perform a fork of a stream by piping a single Readable stream into multiple Writable streams. This is useful when we want to send the same data to different destinations; for example, two different sockets or two different files. It can also be used when we want to perform different transformations on the same data, or when we want to split the data based on some criteria. If you’re familiar with the Unix command tee this is exactly the same ...