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Hands-On JavaScript High Performance

You're reading from   Hands-On JavaScript High Performance Build faster web apps using Node.js, Svelte.js, and WebAssembly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838821098
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Justin Scherer Justin Scherer
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Tools for High Performance on the Web 2. Immutability versus Mutability - The Balance between Safety and Speed FREE CHAPTER 3. Vanilla Land - Looking at the Modern Web 4. Practical Example - A Look at Svelte and Being Vanilla 5. Switching Contexts - No DOM, Different Vanilla 6. Message Passing - Learning about the Different Types 7. Streams - Understanding Streams and Non-Blocking I/O 8. Data Formats - Looking at Different Data Types Other Than JSON 9. Practical Example - Building a Static Server 10. Workers - Learning about Dedicated and Shared Workers 11. Service Workers - Caching and Making Things Faster 12. Building and Deploying a Full Web Application 13. WebAssembly - A Brief Look into Native Code on the Web 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing a Duplex stream

A duplex stream is just that, one that works both ways. It combines a Readable and Writable stream into a single interface. With this type of stream, we can now just pipe from the socket into our custom stream instead of wrapping the stream like we have been (even though we will still implement it as a wrapped stream).

There is not much more to talk about with Duplex streams other than one fact that trips up newcomers to the stream type. There are two separate buffers: one for Readable and one for Writable. We need to make sure to treat them as separate instances. This means whatever we use for the _read method in terms of variables, should not be used for the _write and _writev method implementations, otherwise, we could run into bad bugs.

As stated before, the following code implements a Duplex stream along with a counting mechanism so, that way...

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