Is it possible to pipe to console.log?

Question

I am trying to learn node.js.

I am trying to understand streams and piping.

Is it possible to pipe the response of http request to console.log?

I know how to do this by binding a handler to the data event but I am more interested in streaming it to the console.

http.get(url, function(response) {   response.pipe(console.log);   response.on('end', function() {     console.log('finished');   }); }); 

Answer 1

console.log is just a function that pipes the process stream to an output.

Note that the following is example code

console.log = function(d) {   process.stdout.write(d + '\n'); }; 

Piping to process.stdout does exactly the same thing.

http.get(url, function(response) {   response.pipe(process.stdout);   response.on('end', function() {     console.log('finished');   }); }); 

Note you can also do

process.stdout.write(response);