A full version history of the streamx package with size, number of distributed files and dependency evolution.
Streamx, an npm package offering an improved iteration of Node.js core streams, has undergone significant evolution since its initial release. Version 1.0.0, dating back to April 2015, relied on thunkify, marking its initial foray into ES6 stream enhancements. A major shift occurred with version 2.0.0 in July 2019, introducing dependencies like fast-fifo and nanoassert, signifying a deeper dive into performance and assertion mechanisms. Subsequent 2.x.x versions saw incremental improvements and dependency updates, with tape, standard, and end-of-stream becoming staples in the development dependencies, emphasizing testing and code quality.
Around version 2.8.0, the repository transitioned to streamxorg, reflecting a possible community-driven evolution. Later releases in the 2.10.x series refined dependencies, while the 2.11.x series introduced queue-tick, potentially for better queue management. Versions 2.13.0 onwards display a reduced file count in their distributions, possibly indicating bundling or optimization efforts. The introduction of bare-events as an optional dependency in version 2.15.8 suggests a move towards more flexible event handling. As of recent releases, starting from version 2.18.0, text-decoder was added as a dependency, potentially to handle text encoding, and fast-fifo has been updated to v1.3.2 which is an indicator of performance boost and bug fixes.
In the more recent versions, the dependency to queue-tick has been removed, and all standard dev dependencies and bare-events have remained the same.