NodeJS Streaming and Request Module

I have below data coming from an url. Now I want to transform the data into new line delimited JSON using any method that gives me the lowest response time. It is a lot of data and hence streaming made sense to me.

03 Jan 2000,30.00,30.89,29.31,30.89,12487930,,,,

04 Jan 2000,32.30,32.35,29.40,30.38,7095350,,,,

05 Jan 2000,29.90,30.10,28.00,29.20,5044130,,,,

06 Jan 2000,29.50,30.34,29.20,29.41,3988780,,,,

07 Jan 2000,29.20,29.48,27.93,28.50,6264940,,,,

I started with the idea of using res.write and res.end. I have used both axios and request packages for experimental purpose!!!

Attempt#1 Status: Successful, TAT: 1.25s

function streamPrice(req, res) {
  const { url } = req.query;
  res.set({
        "Cache-Control": "no-store, must-revalidate",
        "Connection": "keep-alive",
        "TRANSFER-ENCODING": "chunked"
    });
    axios(url)
        .then(response => {
            const {
                data
            } = response;
            const rawdata = data.split("\n");
            const opLen = rawdata.length;
            for (let i = opLen -1 ; i >=0 ; i--) {
                const cols = rawdata[i].split(",");
                const elem = {
                    date: parseDateEOD(cols[0]),
                    open: +cols[1],
                    high: +cols[2],
                    low: +cols[3],
                    close: +cols[4],
                    volume: +cols[5],
                    bonus: cols[6],
                    dividend: cols[7],
                    rights: cols[8],
                    split: cols[9],
                    absoluteChange: 0,
                    percentChange: 0
                };             
                res.write(JSON.stringify(elem) + "\n\n");
                res.flush();                       
            }
            res.end(null);
            return;
        })
        .catch(e => {
            logger.info(e);
            return;
        });
}

But I am not happy with the response time of 1.25s and want it to be in milliseconds. The mere calling of the data from the url using request takes 45ms so I would like to transform the formatted data back to the client in <250-300ms. Someone suggested using piping increases speed so here is my second attempt using piping

Attempt#2 Status: Successful but no transformation, TAT: 250ms

function streamPrice = function(req,res){
const { url } = req.query;
const reqs = request(url);
reqs.pipe(res);
}

Now I wanted to transform each record and convert it into a newline delimited JSON so I wrote the below:

Attempt#3 Status: Unsuccessful, TAT: 250ms

 function streamPrice = function(req,res){
 const { url } = req.query;
    const reqs = request(url,function(error, response, body){
          const rawdata = body.split("\n");
          const opLen = rawdata.length;
          let result;
          for (let i = opLen - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            const cols = rawdata[i].split(",");
            const elem = JSON.stringify({
              date: parseDateEOD(cols[0]),
              open: +cols[1],
              high: +cols[2],
              low: +cols[3],
              close: +cols[4],
              volume: +cols[5],
              bonus: cols[6],
              dividend: cols[7],
              rights: cols[8],
              split: cols[9],
              absoluteChange: 0,
              percentChange: 0
            }) + "\n\n";
            if(i===0){
              result = elem;
            } else {
              result+=elem;
            }
          } 
          return result;       
      });
    reqs.pipe(res);
    }

But the resultant data is still the untransformed data set

Few queries: 1. What am I doing wrong? 2. Should I use a transform stream before piping out to res. If yes, can you please help me with the transform stream that would convert the chunks into the below new line delimited JSON format

{"date":"2017-05-12T00:00:00.000Z","open":1562,"high":1562.4,"low":1540.1,"close":1548.85,"volume":28485,"bonus":"","dividend":"","rights":"","split":"","absoluteChange":0,"percentChange":0}

{"date":"2017-05-11T00:00:00.000Z","open":1572.8,"high":1580,"low":1555.15,"close":1561.7,"volume":336193,"bonus":"","dividend":"","rights":"","split":"","absoluteChange":0,"percentChange":0}

{"date":"2017-05-10T00:00:00.000Z","open":1530.95,"high":1575,"low":1528.55,"close":1572.8,"volume":74108,"bonus":"","dividend":"","rights":"","split":"","absoluteChange":0,"percentChange":0}

Please let me know in case of any further information

via Sushanta Deb