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📦 multitars we're starting to share around some tar & multipart en-/decoding code at expo, so it's published separately now. We needed tar/multipart support that's memory efficient and based on the Web Streams API github.com/kitten/multi...

github.comGitHub - kitten/multitars: Multipart and Tar utilities for the Web Streams APIMultipart and Tar utilities for the Web Streams API - kitten/multitars

phil 🫠

@kitten.sh

29 Nov 2025

some more context... 1. this currently powers internal APIs in EAS Hosting and Launch at @expo.dev 2. might move this to the Expo GH org in the future, TBD 3. It's a smol API with some added utils so not a full node-tar/tar-fs replacement but a place for us to put general stream format code

phil 🫠

@kitten.sh

4. the repo isn't quite complete in terms of tests/benchmarks, but I ran it in some other libs benchmarks and it's relatively fast 5. yes, this isn't a novel library or new idea, but just something we'd like to own since the need for these formats exist in almost all parts of Expo

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