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Proxy Pattern: Creating a Logging Writable Stream

Explore how to apply the Proxy pattern to Writable streams in Node.js. Learn to create a proxy that intercepts write() method calls, logs the data chunks, and preserves the original stream behavior without alteration.

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To see the Proxy pattern applied to a real example, we’ll now build an object that acts as a proxy to a Writable stream, which intercepts all the calls to the write() method and logs a message every time this happens. We’ll use the Proxy object to implement our proxy. Let’s write our code in a logging-writable.js ...