# destroy

> destroy a stream if possible

Latest version **1.2.0** (published 2022-03-20) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install destroy
pnpm add destroy
yarn add destroy
bun add destroy
```

## Health

**Score 23/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: has types package; no vulnerabilities; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.2.0 |
| Published | 2022-03-20 |
| First published | 2014-08-15 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | separate (@types/destroy) |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Node | >= 0.8 |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Unpacked size | 8.8 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 53 |
| Author | Jonathan Ong |
| Maintainers | dougwilson, jongleberry |
| Keywords | stream, streams, destroy, cleanup, leak, fd |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/destroy
- Repository: https://github.com/stream-utils/destroy
- Homepage: https://github.com/stream-utils/destroy#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/stream-utils/destroy/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/destroy

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## Recent versions

- 1.2.0 (latest) — 2022-03-20
- 1.1.1 — 2022-02-28
- 1.1.0 — 2022-01-25
- 1.0.4 — 2016-01-16
- 1.0.3 — 2014-08-15

## README

# destroy

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Destroy a stream.

This module is meant to ensure a stream gets destroyed, handling different APIs
and Node.js bugs.

## API

```js
var destroy = require('destroy')
```

### destroy(stream [, suppress])

Destroy the given stream, and optionally suppress any future `error` events.

In most cases, this is identical to a simple `stream.destroy()` call. The rules
are as follows for a given stream:

  1. If the `stream` is an instance of `ReadStream`, then call `stream.destroy()`
     and add a listener to the `open` event to call `stream.close()` if it is
     fired. This is for a Node.js bug that will leak a file descriptor if
     `.destroy()` is called before `open`.
  2. If the `stream` is an instance of a zlib stream, then call `stream.destroy()`
     and close the underlying zlib handle if open, otherwise call `stream.close()`.
     This is for consistency across Node.js versions and a Node.js bug that will
     leak a native zlib handle.
  3. If the `stream` is not an instance of `Stream`, then nothing happens.
  4. If the `stream` has a `.destroy()` method, then call it.

The function returns the `stream` passed in as the argument.

## Example

```js
var destroy = require('destroy')

var fs = require('fs')
var stream = fs.createReadStream('package.json')

// ... and later
destroy(stream)
```

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