beam v0.1.4

beam.js

Streams and pipes for analytic or computational events

Status

Experimental.

Overview

Node.js streams and pipes are a wonderful UNIX streams like abstraction oriented for fast IO transformations. This allows IO events to be composed and for transformations to be modularised and reused easily.

However, stream operations are defined in terms of chunks of data and buffers. This is great for IO. But not for data already resident in process and in memory. Beams are like streams, in that they support pipes but are lightweight and work with in memory types without buffering, copying, parsing.