streaming-lines

Efficiently process text files line-by-line.

Streams are more efficient than reading an entire file into memory, especially when reading large files - some files are too large to do this. This package enables users to efficiently process large text files line-by-line.

NOTE: streaming-lines only handles utf-8 encode text.

Install

Install the package, including TypeScript declarations.

npm i streaming-lines

Use

Let's read from a file in the current directory and capitalize each line in the file.

Using JavaScript

const readlines = require('streaming-lines').readlines;

(async function () {
    await readlines(__dirname + '/myfile.txt', (line) => {
        line.toUpperCase();
    });
})

Using TypeScript

import { readlines } from 'streaming-lines';

(async function () {
    await readlines(__dirname + '/myfile.txt', (line: string) => {
        line.toUpperCase();
    });
})

Test

Tests can be found in the test/ directory. They can be run with the following command:

npm run test

Each file with a .test.ts extension will be executed using the mocha testing framework.