MattiasBuelens
web-streams-polyfill
Web Streams, based on the WHATWG spec reference implementation.
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Usage
This library comes in multiple variants:
@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill: a polyfill that replaces the native stream implementations. Recommended for use in web apps supporting older browsers through a<script>tag.@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill/es6: a polyfill targeting ES2015+ environments. Recommended for use in web apps supporting modern browsers through a<script>tag.@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill/es2018: a polyfill targeting ES2018+ environments. Required forReadableStreamasync iterable support.@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill: a ponyfill that provides the stream implementations without replacing any globals. Recommended for use in legacy Node applications, or in web libraries supporting older browsers.@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill/es6: a ponyfill targeting ES2015+ environments. Recommended for use in Node 6+ applications, or in web libraries supporting modern browsers.@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill/es2018: a ponyfill targeting ES2018+ environments. Recommended for use in Node 10+ applications.
Each variant also includes TypeScript type definitions, compatible with the DOM type definitions for streams included in TypeScript.
Usage as a polyfill:
<!-- option 1: hosted by unpkg CDN -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill/dist/polyfill.min.js"></script>
<!-- option 2: self hosted -->
<script src="/path/to/web-streams-polyfill/dist/polyfill.min.js"></script>
<script>
var readable = new ReadableStream();
</script>Usage as a Node module:
var streams = require("@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill");
var readable = new streams.ReadableStream();Usage as a ES2015 module:
import { ReadableStream } from "@mattiasbuelens/web-streams-polyfill/ponyfill";
const readable = new ReadableStream();Compatibility
The polyfill and ponyfill variants work in any ES5-compatible environment that has a global Promise.
If you need to support older browsers or Node versions that do not have a native Promise implementation
(check the support table), you must first include a Promise polyfill
(e.g. promise-polyfill).
The polyfill/es6 and ponyfill/es6 variants work in any ES2015-compatible environment.
The polyfill/es2018 and ponyfill/es2018 variants work in any ES2018-compatible environment.
Compliance
The polyfill implements version 2c8f35e (21 Feb 2019) of the streams specification.
The type definitions are compatible with the built-in stream types of TypeScript 3.3.
Contributors
Thanks to these people for their work on the original polyfill: