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CountQueuingStrategy: highWaterMark property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨January 2019⁩.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The read-only CountQueuingStrategy.highWaterMark property returns the total number of chunks that can be contained in the internal queue before backpressure is applied.

Values

An integer representing a number of chunks.

Examples

const queueingStrategy = new CountQueuingStrategy({ highWaterMark: 1 });

const readableStream = new ReadableStream(
  {
    start(controller) {
      // …
    },
    pull(controller) {
      // …
    },
    cancel(err) {
      console.log("stream error:", err);
    },
  },
  queuingStrategy,
);

const size = queuingStrategy.size(chunk);
console.log(`highWaterMark value: ${queuingStrategy.highWaterMark}$`);

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
highWaterMark 52 16 65 39 10.1 52 65 41 10.3 6.0 52 10.3

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CountQueuingStrategy/highWaterMark