Why not just chunk the json packets instead?

I imagine if you reason about incomplete strings as a sort of “unparsed data” where you might store or transport or render it raw (like a string version of printing response.data instead of response.json()), but not act on it (compare, concat, etc), it’s a reasonably safe model?

I’m imagining it in my mental model as being typed “unknown”. Anything that prevents accidental use as if it were a whole string… I imagine a more complex type with an “isComplete” flag of sorts would be more powerful but a bit of a blunderbuss.