modern-async VS when

Compare modern-async vs when and see what are their differences.

modern-async

A modern JavaScript tooling library for asynchronous operations using async/await, promises and async generators (by nicolas-van)

when

A solid, fast Promises/A+ and when() implementation, plus other async goodies. (by cujojs)
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modern-async when
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190 3,447
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7.8 1.8
3 months ago almost 2 years ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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modern-async

Posts with mentions or reviews of modern-async. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning modern-async yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

when

Posts with mentions or reviews of when. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-02.
  • Introduction to Asynchronous JavaScript
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Jul 2021
    Promises are a popular way of getting rid of callback hell. Originally it was a type of construct introduced by JavaScript libraries like Q and when.js, but these types of libraries became popular enough that promises are now provided natively in ECMAScript 6.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing modern-async and when you can also consider the following projects:

Bluebird - :bird: :zap: Bluebird is a full featured promise library with unmatched performance.

async - Async utilities for node and the browser

step - An async control-flow library that makes stepping through logic easy.

q - A promise library for JavaScript

contra - :surfer: Asynchronous flow control with a functional taste to it

ObjectEventTarget - A same behaviour EventTarget prototype, that can work with any object from JavaScript

OF - 🍬 Promise wrapper with sugar 🍬

Javascript State Machine - A javascript finite state machine library