So I am working on a express project in which I would like to stream to the client progress that is being made. I have some more demos to work out until I get a better grasp on what I want to go with, but have learn some great stuff in the process, about express streams. So it turns out that the response object in middle ware methods is a kind of stream and it inherits from the node http response method. So in express streams can be used by way of the response object to send data to the client in a chunk by chunk basis. In this post I will be going over some examples of how to do this, and how to check on progress on a request with the on process XMLHttpRequest event.

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So I have wrote a few posts on streams when it comes to the create read stream and create write stream file system module methods, as well as many other such methods in various native nodejs modules. However I have not wrote much on the node stream module by itself, and how to go about using that module to make my own custom streams. Also it is important to know a thing or two about this module and the nature of streams in general when it comes to working on nodejs projects. So I thought I would put together a piece of content in which I am focusing on the node stream module and custom made streams, rather than something else in nodejs that inherits from the base classes in this module.

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I have been doing a lot of work revolving the use of the child process module as of late, so I thought I would write some demos about the node fork child process method. This node fork method does not launch a copy of the current process, but it does start a new node process with the given external script given as the first argument. It is similar to other methods in the child process module such as spawn, but it is set up a little different by default, and might be a better alternative to using spawn when it comes to launching an additional node process on the host os.

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The buffer write method in nodejs can be used to write data to a buffer that has been created before hand one way of another. There are a few basics to cover when it comes to putting data into a buffer such as encoding and buffer index values. So I thought I would writing a quick post on the buffer write prototype method in nodejs, and may branch off with some other related topics on buffers.

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When working with arrays the length property is not really a good way to go about getting the data length of a string. The reason why is because of the nature of Unicode. However in nodejs when working with buffers the buffer length property of a buffer can be used to get the amount of memory that the buffer is taking up at least. In addition if buffers are used the right way buffer length can be used as a way to get the actual data size of a string. So this will be a quick post on the buffer length property in nodejs and some related topic when it comes to array length.

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