Piping Streams

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FrontEndMasters Real-Time Web with Node.js
Created at:
2015-10-13
Updated:
2015-10-13
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JavaScript Node JS Fundamentals backend
Video Course on Real-Time HTML5 with Node.jsstreams are pipable

e.g from the previous example File Streams

​stream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filename+".backup")​ 

mynote: this is basically how the sendtodropbox service works so efficiently 
How Node.js Streams saved Send to Dropbox
better example to an unzip or csv parser 

have to pay attention to which stream you attach your events to
demoes Node.js Stream Playground
visual builder to learn streams

streams are in the top three concepts in Node