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CountQueuingStrategy: size() method

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 size() method of the CountQueuingStrategy interface always returns 1, so that the total queue size is a count of the number of chunks in the queue.

Syntax

size()

Parameters

None.

Return value

1.

Examples

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

const writableStream = new WritableStream(
  {
    // Implement the sink
    write(chunk) {
      // …
    },
    close() {
      // …
    },
    abort(err) {
      console.log("Sink error:", err);
    },
  },
  queuingStrategy,
);

const size = queuingStrategy.size();

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
size 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/size