An Introduction to Streaming on the WebChunking data, handling backpressure, server-side events, and more. The ability to process data as it streams has always been a fundamental concept in computer science. JavaScript developers had access to streaming through XMLHttpRequest, but it wasn't until 2015 that it was accessible natively through the Fetch API. Web streams provide a standardized way to
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