readable-stream 3.x is a copy of Node 10's streams. Like 2.x and 4.x it
now compiles as node:stream: readable.js as stream.Readable carrying the
stream classes, Stream, finished and pipeline, and lib/_stream_*.js as the
matching builtin classes. Unlike them, this is not the package's own
READABLE_STREAM=disable mode, which throws on Node 24 (it Object.assigns
every stream export onto stream.Readable, which inherits the getter-only
`promises` accessor). The limitations and dependencies pages and the
compatibility notes say so.
The corpus program readable-stream-3 runs the vendored 3.6.2 under Node and
keeps to behavior its streams share with the builtin.
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isarray, safe-buffer, process-nextick-args, inherits and util-deprecate
evaluate to a Node builtin on Node 24 at their checked major versions, so
a require of one compiles as that builtin expression at the require's
position: from an opted-in package's files (the installed version where
Node's resolution finds it), from the program's own CommonJS files, and
through an esbuild __commonJS chunk whose pnpm path key names the package
and its version. The package's files never join the program.
readable-stream 2.x and 4.x compile as node:stream, the package's own
READABLE_STREAM=disable behavior (a documented divergence). A use of the
entry's export picks the builtin module (member reads of the carried
classes) or stream.Readable (value uses); a mixture keeps the package.
3.x stays as is: its disable branch throws on Node 24.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Chris Tate