Concatenate two (or n) streams

If you don't care about the ordering of data in the streams, a simple reduce operation should be fine in nodejs!

const {PassThrough} = require('stream')

let joined = [s0, s1, s2, ...sN].reduce((pt, s, i, a) => {
  s.pipe(pt, {end: false})
  s.once('end', () => a.every(s => s.ended) && pt.emit('end'))
  return pt
}, new PassThrough())

Cheers ;)

this can be done with vanilla nodejs

import { PassThrough } from 'stream'
const merge = (...streams) => {
    let pass = new PassThrough()
    let waiting = streams.length
    for (let stream of streams) {
        pass = stream.pipe(pass, {end: false})
        stream.once('end', () => --waiting === 0 && pass.emit('end'))
    }
    return pass
}

The combined-stream package concatenates streams. Example from the README:

var CombinedStream = require('combined-stream');
var fs = require('fs');

var combinedStream = CombinedStream.create();
combinedStream.append(fs.createReadStream('file1.txt'));
combinedStream.append(fs.createReadStream('file2.txt'));

combinedStream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('combined.txt'));

I believe you have to append all streams at once. If the queue runs empty, the combinedStream automatically ends. See issue #5.

The stream-stream library is an alternative that has an explicit .end, but it's much less popular and presumably not as well-tested. It uses the streams2 API of Node 0.10 (see this discussion).

This can now be easily done using async iterators

async function* concatStreams(readables) {
  for (const readable of readables) {
    for await (const chunk of readable) { yield chunk }
  }
} 

And you can use it like this

const fs = require('fs')
const stream = require('stream')

const files = ['file1.txt', 'file2.txt', 'file3.txt'] 
const iterable = await concatStreams(files.map(f => fs.createReadStream(f)))

// convert the async iterable to a readable stream
const mergedStream = stream.Readable.from(iterable)

More info regarding async iterators: https://2ality.com/2019/11/nodejs-streams-async-iteration.html