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Async Mindset Snippets

by punkave ALL

nodejs async module snippets designed to improve your coding style

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  • 2014.12.24.14.37.59
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Examples

series TAB ->

return async.series({
  nameOfStepOne: function(callback) {
    // After naming step one and tabbing again, you are here
  }
});

step TAB ->

return async.series({
  stepOne: function(callback) {
    ...
  },
  stepTwo: function(callback) {
    // Position yourself after step one, type "step"
    // and hit tab; you are prompted to name "stepTwo".
    // Hit tab again and you're here
  }
});

**each TAB ->** “javascript return async.eachSeries(myArray, function(item, callback) { // After typing myArray and pressing tab again, you are here }, callback);

**`err TAB ->`**
```javascript
if (err) {
  return callback(err);
}

**done TAB ->** ”javascript return callback(null);

**`skip TAB ->`**
```javascript
// Safely invoke callback when we didn't
// do anything async
return setImmediate(callback);

**skipr TAB ->** “javascript // Safely invoke callback with some data when we // didn't anything async return setImmediate(_.partial(callback, null, data));

**`whil TAB ->`**
```javascript
var done = false;
return async.whilst(
  function() { return !done; },
  function(callback) {
    // You start typing again here
  }, callback
);

Your inner function keeps getting called until you set done to true.

Philosophy

If you're gonna code with callbacks, you gotta use the async module. Otherwise you're writing spaghetti code and infinitely nested curly braces.

The async module solves this problem, but it takes a lot of typing and that leads to mistakes. That's where these snippets come in.

These snippets have aggressively short keywords to make it easy to drill them into your fingers and improve your node programming style permanently.

All of these snippets start with return to avoid accidentally falling through to other code. Calling another function that takes a callback does not stop the execution of your function unles you return.

The each snippet deliberately uses eachSeries. async.each is usually a mistake because you haven't thought about the consequences of (100? 1,000? 1,000,000?) things happening at once.

Switch your code to eachLimit later if you have a rational reason to believe you can handle more than one at a time safely.

You should always use skip if you have not done any asynchronous work yet in your function and you need to invoke a callback asynchronously to avoid crashing the JavaScript stack. If you don't use skip (which calls setImmediate), your code will seem fine until one day you have a few hundred items and the JavaScript stack crashes. This is especially true with async.eachSeries.

Credits

These snippets were developed to support our work at P'unk Avenue.