@jpwilliams/waitgroup

@jpwilliams/waitgroup

A tiny version of Golang's WaitGroup for Node.js and the browser with typings, promises, and zero dependencies.

npm install @jpwilliams/waitgroup

import http from "http";
import { WaitGroup } from "@jpwilliams/waitgroup";

async function main() {
  const wg = new WaitGroup();

  const urls = [
    "http://www.golang.org/",
    "http://www.google.com/",
    "http://www.somestupidname.com/",
  ];

  urls.forEach((url) => {
    // Increment the WaitGroup counter
    wg.add(1);
    // Fetch the URL
    http.get(url, () => {
      // Decrement the counter when the GET is complete
      wg.done();
    });
  });

  // Wait for all HTTP fetches to complete
  await wg.wait();
}

main();

For most applications in Node.js, using built-ins like Promise.all will work perfectly, but sometimes this can be a really nice abstraction if the promises you have to keep track of are pretty spread out.

See jpwilliams/waitgroup-deno for a Deno version.