async VS step

Link:https://www.npmjs.com/package/async

3. async.eachLimit

Well you could just install the async package which has lots of useful functions like mapLimit which will reduce the burden and only run a number in parallel.

Have you checked out the docs for the async library they are using?

Edit:2. What's a good library that takes care of common async patterns? (Something like async)

The nodejs async module: https://github.com/caolan/async provides 2 similar methods, async.waterfall and async.series.

With async I'd simply use async.series().

I don't understand. Sure you could spawn a ton of processes, but things might be bogged down. There are utilities out there for doing work queues.... so only N workers are running at any one time. The async library has some utilities for that. https://github.com/caolan/async

The documentation of asyncjs is quite straightforward and easy to read. As we've only seen a couple of use cases in this article, I'd recommend to go the asyncjs documentation and check out other possibilities with the library. You can also try to replicate the same using async/await to solidify your understanding of where the library might still make sense.

import { When, Then, Given } from '@badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor'; Given(`I've opened the npm.com`, () => { cy.visit('https://www.npmjs.com/'); cy.intercept('GET', 'https://www.npmjs.com/search/suggestions?q=step', [ { name: 'step', scope: 'unscoped', version: '1.0.0', description: 'Test', date: '2017-01-06T21:16:57.341Z', links: { npm: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/step' }, author: { name: 'John Smith', email: '[email protected]', username: 'test' }, publisher: { username: 'test', email: '[email protected]' }, maintainers: [{ username: '[email protected]', email: '[email protected]' }], }, ]).as('getResults'); }); When('I typed a phrase in the search field', () => { cy.get('input[name="q"]').type('step'); }); Then('I should see the results in the dropdown menu', () => { cy.wait('@getResults'); cy.get('ul[role="listbox"] li').should('have.length', 1).should('have.text', 'stepTest1.0.0'); });