isStream

Test if an object is a `Stream`

The missing `Stream.isStream(obj)`: determine if an object is standard Node.js `Stream`. Works for Node-core `Stream` objects (for 0.8, 0.10, 0.11, and in theory, older and newer versions) and all versions of readable-stream.

# Usage:

var isStream = require('isstream')
var Stream = require('stream')
isStream(new Stream()) // true
isStream({}) // false
isStream(new Stream.Readable()) // true
isStream(new Stream.Writable()) // true
isStream(new Stream.Duplex()) // true
isStream(new Stream.Transform()) // true
isStream(new Stream.PassThrough()) // true

# But wait! There's more!

You can also test for `isReadable(obj)`, `isWritable(obj)` and `isDuplex(obj)` to test for implementations of Streams2 (and Streams3) base classes.

var isReadable = require('isstream').isReadable
var isWritable = require('isstream').isWritable
var isDuplex = require('isstream').isDuplex
var Stream = require('stream')
isReadable(new Stream()) // false
isWritable(new Stream()) // false
isDuplex(new Stream()) // false
isReadable(new Stream.Readable()) // true
isReadable(new Stream.Writable()) // false
isReadable(new Stream.Duplex()) // true
isReadable(new Stream.Transform()) // true
isReadable(new Stream.PassThrough()) // true
isWritable(new Stream.Readable()) // false
isWritable(new Stream.Writable()) // true
isWritable(new Stream.Duplex()) // true
isWritable(new Stream.Transform()) // true
isWritable(new Stream.PassThrough()) // true
isDuplex(new Stream.Readable()) // false
isDuplex(new Stream.Writable()) // false
isDuplex(new Stream.Duplex()) // true
isDuplex(new Stream.Transform()) // true
isDuplex(new Stream.PassThrough()) // true

Reminder: when implementing your own streams, please use readable-stream rather than core streams.

# License

isStream is Copyright (c) 2015 Rod Vagg @rvagg and licenced under the MIT licence. All rights not explicitly granted in the MIT license are reserved. See the included LICENSE.md file for more details.