TransformStreamDefaultController: desiredSize property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since June 2022.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The desiredSize read-only property of the TransformStreamDefaultController interface returns the desired size to fill the queue of the associated ReadableStream.

The internal queue of a ReadableStream contains chunks that have been enqueued, but not yet read. The browser determines the desired size to fill the stream, and it is this value returned by the desiredSize property.

If the desiredSize is 0 then the queue is full. Therefore you can use this information to manually apply backpressure to manage the queue.

Value

The desired size.

Examples

In the next example the desiredSize is logged to the console.

js
console.log(controller.desiredSize);

Specifications

Specification
Streams
# ts-default-controller-desired-size

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile server
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Bun
Deno
Node.js
desiredSize
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 67 (Release date: 2018-05-29)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 102 (Release date: 2022-06-28)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 54 (Release date: 2018-06-28)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 14.1 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 67 (Release date: 2018-05-31)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 102 (Release date: 2022-06-28)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 48 (Release date: 2018-11-08)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 14.5 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 9 (Release date: 2018-09-15)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 67 (Release date: 2018-05-31)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 14.5 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
footnote Full support
Bun – Full support
Bun 1 (Release date: 2023-09-08)
footnote Full support
Deno – Full support
Deno 1 (Release date: 2020-05-13)
footnote Full support
Node.js – Full support
Node.js 16.5 (Release date: 2021-07-14)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support