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title: "Web Streams Everywhere (and Fetch for Node.js)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/web-streams-everywhere-and-fetch-for-node-js--bu7cyuadl
source_url: https://css-tricks.com/web-streams-everywhere-and-fetch-for-node-js/
type: article
source: "CSS-Tricks"
published: 2021-09-29T15:33:19.893Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["nodejs"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 13
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Web Streams Everywhere (and Fetch for Node.js)

**[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 8 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Streaming involves splitting a resource into smaller pieces and processing each chunk one at a time. There are three kinds of streams: readable streams, writable streams, and transform streams. The original Node streams aren’t being deprecated or removed but they will now co-exist with the web standard stream API.

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