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᭟ concurrency.libx.js

Helper functions to deal better with multi-concurrency, parallelism and promises.
This lib is browser compatible, and nodejs environment.

Features:

The missing piece in asynchronous programming - Leverage Promises by manually creating Deferred object (like Promise but with more control).
Advanced utils for concurrent events - Throttle, debounce, chain and more.
Easily convert synchronous functions to asynchronous - Dynamically convert functions to async functions.

Use:

NodeJS:

yarn add concurrency.libx.js

Check more examples in unit-test at tests.

Browser:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/concurrency.libx.js@latest/dist/browser.min.js
(Modules are loaded into `window.libx.concurrency` object).

Use this library in browser from CDN, code example, live example.
Or include from node_modules.

Helpers:

-Deferred
-Async
-IsAsync
-Debounce
-Throttle
-Chain
-Delay
-Sleep
-Measurements
-WaitUntil

Deferred:

Create promises as an object to manually wrap non-promisified functions and avoid callback-hell.

While util.promisify is useful to convert callback-based functions to promisibable functions, concurrency.libx.js is useful to manually manage resolve and reject operations.

Instead:

const util = require('util');
const fs = require('fs');
const stat = util.promisify(fs.stat);

stat('.').then((stats) => {
	// Do something with `stats`
}).catch((error) => {
	// Handle the error.
});

// or
async function callStat() {
	const stats = await stat('.');
	console.log(`This directory is owned by ${stats.uid}`);
}

Do:

const fs = require('fs');
const { Deferred } = require('concurrency.libx.js');
const p = Deferred.new();

fs.stat('.', (err, value)=> {
	if (err) return p.reject(err);
	p.resolve(value);
})

(async()=>{
	const stat = await p;
})();

This approach allows easier to turn deep callback-based functions, spaghetti or legacy code, into more modern promisiable code with fewer changes.

concurrency.libx.js is also browser friendly and supports node versions before 8.

Async:

Dynamically make a sync function async and return a promise. It'll wrap your function with a promise and will allow you treat synchronous functions as asyncs, dynamically.

import { async } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
let syncFunc = (arg) => { // synchronous function
	counter = arg;
	return 10;
}
let result = await async(syncFunc); // call it as if it was asynchronous

IsAsync:

Determin dynamically if a given function is async or not.

import { isAsync } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
isAsync((x)=>x=1); // false
isAsync(async (x)=>x=1); // true

Debounce:

Make a function that is expected to be called multiple times, to be spread with even intervals. Does not skip any call, just delays them.

import { debounce } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
let func = debounce(()=>{
	setInterval(()=>console.log('x'), 10);
}, 100;
func(); // Will make the function to be called with 100ms between each call.

Throttle:

Make a function that is expected to be called multiple times, to be called only once in a given interval. Will skip calls in between.

import { throttle } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
let func = throttle(()=>{
	setInterval(()=>console.log('x'), 10);
}, 20, true);
func(); // The function will be called only once per 20ms, each time one call will be ignored.

Chain:

Perform a given array of async functions in a sequence.

import { chain } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
let tasks = [async ()=>console.log(1), async ()=>console.log(2)];
await chain.chainTasks(tasks);

Delay:

Let the JS VM continue treating other stuff and get back to your block after period passed.
Same as setting setTimeout(fun, dur) but with avoiding the callback-hell;

import { delay } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
console.log('before');
await delay(100);
console.log('after 100ms');

Sleep:

Basically the same as delay, just uses Promise object instead Deferred.

import { sleep } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
await sleep(100);

Measurements:

Helper functions to measure execution times.

import { measurements } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
measurements.startMeasure('test');
await delay(100);
let duration = measurements.peekMeasure('test2');
let duration = measurements.startMeasure('test');

// or:
let duration = measurements.measure(async ()=>{
	await delay(100);
});

WaitUntil:

Pass a condition and let this helper check periodically for you until the condition is met. You can use then or await to respond to the completion.

import { waitUntil } from 'concurrency.libx.js';
let counter = 0;
let condition = ()=> counter == 10;
setInterval(()=> counter++, 500); // Will progress in parallel to `waitUntil`
let interval = 10; // How often to run the condition check
await waitUntil(condition, ()=> {
	console.log('condition reached!');
}, interval);