Code reviewHardcr-g600

Subject Websocket partial frameLevel Senior–Staff~22 minCommon in Networking & APIs · Distributed systems interviewsIndustries Software development, Technology

Question

Review this Node.js code that parses newline-delimited JSON events off a TCP socket.

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Code to reviewjs

1socket.on('data', (chunk) => {2  const line = chunk.toString('utf8').trim();3  const event = JSON.parse(line);4  handle(event);5});

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