🌊 Nagare (流れ)

WASM-first, stream-centric library for high-performance edge computing

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nagare (流れ) - "flow" in Japanese
Like a nagare carving its path through mountains, Nagare guides your data streams with grace and power

Nagare is a next-generation stream processing library that delivers 5-10x performance improvements over traditional JavaScript stream libraries. Built with Rust/WASM for compute-heavy workloads, SIMD acceleration, and designed specifically for edge computing environments like Cloudflare Workers.

Benchmarks

We include a checksum-verified benchmark suite to compare Nagare, RxJS and native loops on common streaming patterns.

• Map + Filter (array sources)
• Reduce (sum) over arrays
• ConcatMap (outer × inner)

Run:

npm run build:ts && node benches/standard-suite.mjs

Notes:

• The suite validates outputs via checksums to prevent “too good to be true” results.
• You can toggle array fusion (JIT-compiled kernels) programmatically:
  • Nagare.setFusionEnabled(true|false)
  • Default runs report both fusion on/off.
• For WebAssembly tests, use npm run test:wasm to run the Vitest suite with real WASM.

Fusion Toggle

Nagare.setFusionEnabled(false); // disable array kernels (semantic, slower)
Nagare.setFusionEnabled(true);  // enable array kernels (fast)
Nagare.setJitMode('fast');      // or 'off' to disable codegen

⚡ Performance First

🏆 Benchmark Results (vs RxJS, after WASM warmup)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Map + Filter     : 8.78x faster ⚡
Scan/Reduce      : 7.32x faster ⚡  
Complex Pipeline : 1.52x faster ⚡
Average Speedup  : 5.87x 🚀

Note: Performance gains are measured after WASM initialization. Initial cold-start includes ~50ms WASM loading overhead, making Nagare optimal for sustained processing workloads rather than one-off operations.

✨ Why Nagare?

🎯 Purpose-Built for Edge

• First-class Cloudflare Durable Objects support
• WebSocket hibernation for efficient real-time streams
• Optimized for V8 isolates and edge runtimes

🚀 WASM-Powered Performance

• Rust core compiled to WebAssembly
• SIMD acceleration for numeric operations
• Zero-copy BYOB streaming
• JIT compilation and operator fusion

🛡️ Production Ready

• Full TypeScript support with strict typing
• Comprehensive error handling and recovery
• Credit-based backpressure control
• Battle-tested in production environments

🔧 Developer Experience

• Familiar RxJS-like API
• Tree-shakeable and optimized bundles
• Extensive documentation and examples
• Works in Node.js, browsers, and edge

📦 Installation

npm install @aid-on/nagare

yarn add @aid-on/nagare

pnpm add @aid-on/nagare

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Stream Processing

import { Nagare } from '@aid-on/nagare';

// Create and transform a stream
const stream = Nagare.from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
  .map(x => x * 2)
  .filter(x => x > 5)
  .scan((acc, x) => acc + x, 0);

// Subscribe with automatic cleanup
using subscription = stream.observe(
  value => console.log('Value:', value),
  {
    onComplete: () => console.log('Complete!'),
    onError: error => console.error('Error:', error)
  }
);

### Common Aggregates (JIT-optimized)

```typescript
// Numbers
const values = Nagare.from([3, 1, 4, 1, 5]);

const s = await values.sum();   // 14
const mn = await values.min();  // 1
const mx = await values.max();  // 5
const avg = await values.mean();// 2.8

// Find with predicate
const firstEven = await values.find(x => x % 2 === 0); // 4

These aggregates use the same array fast paths / fused operator chains as reduce, avoiding intermediate arrays.

### SIMD-Accelerated Processing

```typescript
// Process large Float32Arrays with SIMD
const audioData = new Float32Array(1_000_000);

const processed = await Nagare
  .from([audioData])
  .mapWasm('fft_transform')      // Fast Fourier Transform
  .mapWasm('noise_reduction')    // SIMD noise reduction
  .toArray();

// Float64 support
import { processFloat64Batch, simdMapMulAdd64 } from '@aid-on/nagare';
const doubles = new Float64Array(1_000_000);
const squared = await processFloat64Batch(doubles, 'square');

Real-time WebSocket Streams

import { createFromWebSocket } from '@aid-on/nagare';

const wsStream = createFromWebSocket(socket, { 
  binary: true,
  reconnect: true 
});

wsStream
  .map(msg => JSON.parse(msg.data))
  .filter(event => event.type === 'trade')
  .scan((volume, trade) => volume + trade.amount, 0)
  .observe(volume => {
    console.log('Total volume:', volume);
  });

🎨 Core Concepts

The Nagare Type

Nagare<T, E> is the core abstraction - a lazy, composable stream that can be transformed, merged, and observed.

// Multiple ways to create nagares
const fromArray = Nagare.from([1, 2, 3]);
const fromPromise = Nagare.from(Promise.resolve(42));
const fromInterval = nagare.interval(1000);
const fromWebStream = Nagare.fromReadableStream(stream);

// Chainable operators
const pipeline = source
  .map(transform)
  .filter(predicate)
  .debounce(300)
  .distinctUntilChanged()
  .scan(reducer, initial);

Backpressure Management

import { CreditController, AdaptiveBackpressure } from '@aid-on/nagare';

// Credit-based flow control
const credits = new CreditController({
  initialCredits: 100,
  lowWaterMark: 20,
  highWaterMark: 80
});

// Adaptive backpressure based on latency
const adaptive = new AdaptiveBackpressure({
  targetLatency: 50,  // ms
  initialRate: 100,
  minRate: 10,
  maxRate: 1000
});

Error Recovery

const resilient = nagare
  .map(riskyOperation)
  .rescue(error => {
    logger.error('Operation failed:', error);
    return fallbackValue;  // Recover with default
  })
  .retry(3, 1000)  // Retry up to 3 times
  .terminateOnErrorMode();  // Stop on critical errors

🌐 Edge Computing Features

Cloudflare Durable Objects

export class StreamProcessor extends DurableObject {
  private nagare?: Nagare<any>;

  async fetch(request: Request) {
    // Create a stateful stream processor
    this.nagare = Nagare
      .fromWebSocket(request)
      .map(this.processMessage)
      .buffer(100)
      .scan(this.aggregate, {});
      
    return new Response('Stream initialized');
  }
  
  async alarm() {
    // Process buffered data periodically
    const batch = await this.nagare?.take(100).toArray();
    await this.processBatch(batch);
  }
}

WebSocket with Hibernation

// Efficient WebSocket handling with hibernation
export class WebSocketDO extends DurableObject {
  async webSocketMessage(ws: WebSocket, message: string) {
    // Only wake up when messages arrive
    const result = await this.processMessage(message);
    ws.send(JSON.stringify(result));
  }
  
  async webSocketClose(ws: WebSocket) {
    // Clean up on disconnect
    this.state.deleteWebSocket(ws);
  }
}

📊 Advanced Examples

Financial Data Processing

// Real-time trade aggregation
const trades = Nagare.fromEventSource('/trades')
  .map(e => JSON.parse(e.data))
  .filter(t => t.symbol === 'BTC/USD')
  .windowedAggregate(100, 'mean')  // 100-trade moving average
  .scan((stats, price) => ({
    ...stats,
    vwap: (stats.vwap * stats.count + price) / (stats.count + 1),
    count: stats.count + 1
  }), { vwap: 0, count: 0 })
  .observe(stats => {
    dashboard.update(stats);
  });

IoT Sensor Data

// Process sensor telemetry with SIMD
const telemetry = Nagare
  .fromMQTT(mqttClient, 'sensors/+/data')
  .map(msg => new Float32Array(msg.payload))
  .mapWasm('kalman_filter')  // SIMD Kalman filtering
  .mapWasm('anomaly_detection')  // SIMD anomaly detection
  .filter(reading => reading.anomalyScore > 0.8)
  .observe(anomaly => {
    alerts.send(anomaly);
  });

Stream Orchestration

// Merge and combine multiple streams
const temperature = Nagare.fromSensor('temp');
const humidity = Nagare.fromSensor('humidity');
const pressure = Nagare.fromSensor('pressure');

// Merge all readings (interleaved)
const allReadings = nagare.merge(temperature, humidity, pressure);

// Combine latest values from each
const combined = nagare.combine(temperature, humidity, pressure)
  .map(([t, h, p]) => ({
    temperature: t,
    humidity: h,
    pressure: p,
    timestamp: Date.now()
  }));

🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│            TypeScript API Layer                  │
│         (Reactive operators, type safety)        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│           WASM Bridge (wasm-bindgen)            │
│        (Automatic memory management)             │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│             Rust Core Engine                     │
│   ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐      │
│   │   SIMD   │ │  Buffer  │ │   Flow   │      │
│   │ Kernels  │ │   Pool   │ │ Control  │      │
│   └──────────┘ └──────────┘ └──────────┘      │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│            Runtime Adapters                      │
│     (Node.js / Browser / Edge Workers)          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

📚 Complete API Reference

Stream Creation

Nagare.from(source)           // From iterable/async iterable
Nagare.of(...values)          // From values
Nagare.empty()                // Empty stream
nagare.range(0, 100)          // Numeric range
nagare.interval(1000)         // Periodic emissions
createFromWebSocket(ws)      // WebSocket stream
createFromEventSource(url)   // Server-sent events
createFromFetch(url, opts)   // HTTP polling

Transformation Operators

map(fn)                      // Transform values
filter(predicate)            // Filter values
scan(reducer, seed)          // Accumulate values
take(n)                      // Take first n
skip(n)                      // Skip first n
distinctUntilChanged()       // Emit on change
debounce(ms)                 // Debounce emissions
throttle(ms)                 // Throttle emissions
buffer(size)                 // Buffer values
bufferTime(ms)              // Time-based buffer
pairwise()                   // Emit consecutive pairs
startWith(...values)         // Prepend values

Combination Operators

merge(...nagares)             // Merge streams
fork(predicate)             // Split stream
concatMap(fn)               // Sequential flatten
switchMap(fn)               // Cancel previous
combineLatest(...nagares)    // Combine latest values
withLatestFrom(nagare)       // Sample other stream

Error Handling

rescue(handler)             // Recover from errors
retry(count, delay)         // Retry on failure
terminateOnErrorMode()      // Stop on error

WASM Operators

mapWasm(kernel, params)     // Apply WASM kernel
windowedAggregate(n, op)    // SIMD aggregation

🧪 Testing

# Run all tests
npm test

# Run benchmarks
npm run bench

# Run specific benchmark
npm run bench:rxjs
npm run bench:wasm

# Test in browser
npm run test:browser

🚢 Deployment

Cloudflare Workers

# wrangler.toml
name = "nagare-app"
main = "dist/worker.js"
compatibility_date = "2024-01-01"

[[durable_objects.bindings]]
name = "STREAM_DO"
class_name = "StreamProcessor"

npm run build:worker
wrangler deploy

Node.js

// Automatic WASM loading
import { nagare } from '@aid-on/nagare';

const result = await nagare
  .from(data)
  .mapWasm('simd_kernel')
  .toArray();

Browser

<script type="module">
  import { Nagare } from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/@aid-on/nagare';
  
  const stream = Nagare.from([1, 2, 3])
    .map(x => x * 2)
    .observe(console.log);
</script>

🔗 Links

• 💻 GitHub Repository
• 📦 npm Package
• 🎮 Live Demo
• 📊 Documentation

📄 License

MIT © Aid-On

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Built with 🦀 Rust + 🔥 WASM + 💙 TypeScript
_{Making streams flow faster at the edge}

## Combinators

combineLatest

nagare.combineLatest(a, b, ...) behaves like RxJS combineLatest: it emits only after all sources have produced at least one value, then re-emits when any source updates.

const ab = nagare.combineLatest(streamA, streamB);
const out = await ab.toArray();

nagare.combine(...) remains a zip-like pairing of next values.

concatMapArray (fast path)

When each outer element expands to a small, fixed-size array, concatMapArray avoids generator overhead and can preallocate output:

import { concatMapArray, Nagare } from '@aid-on/nagare';

const out = await concatMapArray((x: number) => [x, x + 1])(Nagare.from([1,2,3])).toArray();
// => [1,2, 2,3, 3,4]