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How to make Ajax request through NodeJS to an endpoint
How can I achieve this in NodeJS. I wonder if Q Library can be utilized in this case
- WTF ¿Qué es una promesa en Javascript?
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es6-cheatsheet
Prior to ES6, we used bluebird or Q. Now we have Promises natively:
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One programming concept that took you a while to understand, and how it finally clicked for you
JavaScript Promises were a nightmare to wrap my head around. Not the fancy async/await syntax we have now, but the early stuff like kriskowal’s q. Wasn’t really until Promise was native did I fully understand it. Someone told me “the .then function only runs if you call resolve() in the previous block”. I think that’s what made it click.
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How to specify resolution and rejection type of the promise in JSDoc?
I have some code that returns a promise object, e.g. using Q library for NodeJS.
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Resolved Promises and Promise Fates
Before promises arrived natively in JS, there were(and still are) many separate independent promise implementations in the form of third-party libraries for example Q, RSVP, etc. Even jQuery has its own custom implementation that they call deferreds. The name and the implementation might differ from library to library but the intention is the same, making asynchronous code behave like synchronous code.
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Introduction to Asynchronous JavaScript
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.
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7 tips for a Node.js developer
Another great library is Q https://github.com/kriskowal/q. This library is exposes the concept of promises. A promise is basically an object that is returned from a method with the “promise” that it will eventually provide a return value. This ties is very neatly with the asynchronous nature of javascript and node.js.
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How to Return multiple functions and values while working with REST APIs (Part 1)
q : This module is used for creating custom promises. Check it out here
async
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Avoid the Promise.all pitfall
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.
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What is this callback in async.parallel function?
Have you checked out the docs for the async library they are using?
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How to limit concurrency with Python asyncio?
Edit:2. What's a good library that takes care of common async patterns? (Something like async)
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I Avoid Async/Await
Async/await is certainly not promises. In fact it would be much better implemented without promises as I proposed here: https://es.discourse.group/t/callback-based-simplified-async...
I would even say that async/await is anti-promise, it takes the main functionality of promises, a caching layer for results and errors that allows you to add the code continuation later and elsewhere (which is a major footgun imo) and coerces the execution flow back to going on the next line and provided immediately at compile time which results in a cleaner flow but not as clean, stateless, efficient or functional as if you were to remove the promises completely. Having an additional caching layer and state machine around every asynchronous function call is quite inefficient.
The essence of async/await is not promises, it's the underlying javascript generator (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) functionality combined with asynchronous code to stop and start the generator. It's the ability to pause and resume function execution based on asynchronous operations.
The promise functionality, the caching layer and state machine for results is basically sanitized away with async/await, it becomes dead-weight computation. The only benefit of promises in async/await code is being able to more easily interface with other promise laden code which you don't need once you have async/await and a library like https://www.npmjs.com/package/async for more complex cases.
Note that promises based async/await is also a mess of an implementation that breaks stack traces and needs to support tons of odd statement corner cases (basically anything that can return an object that could be a promise) whereas a continuation passing style async/await would be a much simpler implementation that would only apply to function calls and maintain stack traces. We get that stack trace support automatically because of the great work of whoever implemented javascript generators which seem to already carry stack traces across paused/resumed functions (if you don't wrap in promises).
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What is the difference between async.waterfall and async.series
The nodejs async module: https://github.com/caolan/async provides 2 similar methods, async.waterfall and async.series.
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JavaScript ES6 promise for loop [duplicate]
With async I'd simply use async.series().
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Some questions about events and promises
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
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Caolan Asyncjs vs Async/Await: Which One to Use for Async Operations in NodeJS
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.
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[AskJS] How were asynchronous functions written before Promises?
It basically was tons and tons of callbacks. They'd nest weirdly deep and be a pain to work with. If you're curious, here's a link to one of my favorite JavaScript libraries from those days - it gave you a bunch of neat utilities for dealing with async code.
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Aren't promises just callbacks?
api(function(result){ api2(function(result2){ api3(function(result3){ // do work }); });}); Which I could use a library like async for anyway, with something like:
What are some alternatives?
Bluebird - :bird: :zap: Bluebird is a full featured promise library with unmatched performance.
contra - :surfer: Asynchronous flow control with a functional taste to it
moment - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript.
angular-async-loader - Load modules and components asynchronously for angular 1.x application.
when - A solid, fast Promises/A+ and when() implementation, plus other async goodies.
Simple-Series-Parallel - A minimalist utility module for running async functions in series or parallel
ObjectEventTarget - A same behaviour EventTarget prototype, that can work with any object from JavaScript
neo-async - Neo-Async is thought to be used as a drop-in replacement for Async, it almost fully covers its functionality and runs faster
step - An async control-flow library that makes stepping through logic easy.