Nodejs a very popular javascript runtime environment known for it’s asynchronous nature and server side application development. It has many core modules or say paradigms which are not well explored yet and are used in every application (sounds a bit confusing right?), One of such core modules is Stream.
Everything in nodejs is about efficient process handling (multiple requests) on a single thread. As a nodejs developer one just has to think about the application, everything else, such as efficiency, multiple connections etc. is taken care of by nodejs.
One such module which lets us handle data flow be it binary or objects, asynchronously is Stream.
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