async-recurse v3.4.1

async-recurse

try {
	var targetObject = JSON.parse(someJsonStuff);
}

let iteratee = (value, callback) => {
	setTimeout(() => {
		console.log('done with', value)
		return callback(null); // I can pass truthy to error - which would break the traversal
	}, 100);	
};

To use with callback:

asyncRecurse(targetObject, iteratee, options, (err) => {
	if (err) throw Err;

	//...
});

To use as an ES6 promise, do not pass a fourth argument:

asyncRecurse(targetObject, worker, options)
.then(...)
.catch(...);

Or most simply:

asyncRecurse(targetObject, worker)
...

Basic behavior

If called as an ES6 Promise, then the worker can itself be a Promise. Either way, the worker can always be a function with the arguments value and callback. The worker's callback can take an error argument, which if truthy, will prematurely terminate the traversal in a similar fashion to how Promise.all will break the iteration if anything fails. If you choose to define your worker as a Promise, then you can reject to get the same behavior.

Options:

If parallel is off, the work will be done serially - the next worker won't start until the previous finished. The walk is performed as a depth-first pre-order traversal and the order serialization will accord.

A branch is an Object or Array and a leaf is everything else (in other words if you're parsing from JSON a leaf must be a String, Number, Boolean, or null).

by Dillon Bostwick