# stdout-stream Non-blocking stdout stream npm install stdout-stream [](http://travis-ci.org/mafintosh/stdout-stream)  ## Rant Try saving this example as `example.js` ``` js console.error('start'); process.stdout.write(new Buffer(1024*1024)); console.error('end'); ``` And run the following program ``` node example.js | sleep 1000 ``` The program will never print `end` since stdout in node currently is blocking - even when its being piped (!). stdout-stream tries to fix this by being a stream that writes to stdout but never blocks ## Usage ``` js var stdout = require('stdout-stream'); stdout.write('hello\n'); // write should NEVER block stdout.write('non-blocking\n') stdout.write('world\n'); ``` `stdout-stream` should behave in the same way as `process.stdout` (i.e. do not end on pipe etc) ## License MIT