Ky: Stream API

[szmarczak]

[sindresorhus]

This is also built into Fetch. Maybe we could make an easier API for it though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Streams_API/Using_readable_streams

[szmarczak]

+1

[szmarczak]

What about .stream()?

[sindresorhus]

👍 I like it.

[dangdennis]

I'd like to work on this. Already have been but it's slower going. I wouldn't mind if anyone else is working on it concurrently for some collaboration/merging of ideas as well.

Do you have any other features to add on besides the built-in readableStream and writableStream?

[poppinlp]

Hi. How's it going? If you don't mind, i'll make a PR this weekend.

[jdalrymple]

@sindresorhus was the streaming API ever exposed?

[sholladay]

@jdalrymple yes, we added the ability to pass a callback function that receives chunks and metadata about the download progress, which you can use for streaming purposes.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky#ondownloadprogress

In the future, we will likely also add the ability to get a ReadableStream for the response, as that is already built into fetch().

[jdalrymple]

Ah! That's what I was looking for. So the response is currently not available to be returned as a readable stream.