| # merge-stream | |
| Merge (interleave) a bunch of streams. | |
| [](http://travis-ci.org/grncdr/merge-stream) | |
| ## Synopsis | |
| ```javascript | |
| var stream1 = new Stream(); | |
| var stream2 = new Stream(); | |
| var merged = mergeStream(stream1, stream2); | |
| var stream3 = new Stream(); | |
| merged.add(stream3); | |
| merged.isEmpty(); | |
| //=> false | |
| ``` | |
| ## Description | |
| This is adapted from [event-stream](https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream) separated into a new module, using Streams3. | |
| ## API | |
| ### `mergeStream` | |
| Type: `function` | |
| Merges an arbitrary number of streams. Returns a merged stream. | |
| #### `merged.add` | |
| A method to dynamically add more sources to the stream. The argument supplied to `add` can be either a source or an array of sources. | |
| #### `merged.isEmpty` | |
| A method that tells you if the merged stream is empty. | |
| When a stream is "empty" (aka. no sources were added), it could not be returned to a gulp task. | |
| So, we could do something like this: | |
| ```js | |
| stream = require('merge-stream')(); | |
| // Something like a loop to add some streams to the merge stream | |
| // stream.add(streamA); | |
| // stream.add(streamB); | |
| return stream.isEmpty() ? null : stream; | |
| ``` | |
| ## Gulp example | |
| An example use case for **merge-stream** is to combine parts of a task in a project's **gulpfile.js** like this: | |
| ```js | |
| const gulp = require('gulp'); | |
| const htmlValidator = require('gulp-w3c-html-validator'); | |
| const jsHint = require('gulp-jshint'); | |
| const mergeStream = require('merge-stream'); | |
| function lint() { | |
| return mergeStream( | |
| gulp.src('src/*.html') | |
| .pipe(htmlValidator()) | |
| .pipe(htmlValidator.reporter()), | |
| gulp.src('src/*.js') | |
| .pipe(jsHint()) | |
| .pipe(jsHint.reporter()) | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| gulp.task('lint', lint); | |
| ``` | |
| ## License | |
| MIT | |