Everything that we have seen up to this point showcases how we can utilize all of the built-in systems in Node.js to create streaming applications. However, for those that have been following sequentially in the book, we have discussed generators. Those that have been keen to think about them would notice a strong correlation between streams and generators. This is actually the case! We can utilize generators to hook into the Streaming API.
With this concept, we could build generators that can both work in the browser and inside of Node.js without that much overhead. We have even seen in a Chapter 6, Message Passing – Learning about the Different Types,how we can get at the underlying stream for the Fetch API. Now, we can write a generator that can work with both of these subsystems.
For now, let's just look at an example of an async generator...
