Node Essentials
Streams & buffers
Lesson 4 of 5
Process data piece by piece so a 2 GB file never has to fit in memory at once.
What you'll learn
- Understand why streaming beats loading a whole file
- See chunked, transform-style processing
- Grasp backpressure as the slow side telling the fast side to wait
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