Why do many of these endpoints return Streams instead of Lists?

[ThinkDigitalSoftware]

I'm used to getting a list of say, posts, rather than a stream that returns a single value at a time. Is there a reason for this?

[bkonyi]

Streams allow for data to be automatically fetched asynchronously when the backing data store is exhausted (e.g., a user has iterated over 100 comments, the next 100 comments need to be fetched from the network). You can get a list from a Dart stream by calling stream.toList() or you can simply loop over the stream to build a list yourself:

final list = [];
await for (final value in stream) {
  list.add(value);
}