--- title: "#184: The Definitive Intro to Node's Object Streams" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 184 published_at: "2017-04-20" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/184" --- #184: The Definitive Intro to Node's Object Streams This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/184) Node WeeklyApril 20, 2017 #184 GitHub [On Improving Atom's Startup Time with V8 Snapshots](http://blog.atom.io/2017/04/18/improving-startup-time.html)[Atom](https://atom.io/) is an editor built upon [Electron](https://electron.atom.io/) which in turns uses Chrome and Node. This post looks at how Atom now uses _V8 snapshots_ to load more quickly. Stefan Baumgartner [The Definitive Intro to Node's Object Streams](https://community.risingstack.com/the-definitive-guide-to-object-streams-in-node-js/)Streams are a powerful tool in Node, and this post quickly covers both the theory and practicals of creating and working with object streams. 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