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apr-asyncify
Advanced tools
Take a sync function and make it async. This is useful for plugging sync functions into a waterfall, series, or other async functions.
Take a sync function and make it async. This is useful for plugging sync functions into a waterfall
, series
, or other async functions.
Parameters
function
FunctionExamples
import awaitify from 'apr-awaitify';
import asyncify from 'apr-asyncify';
import waterfall from 'apr-waterfall';
import apply from 'apr-apply';
const readFile = awaitify(require('fs').readFile);
const pkgPath = path.join(__dirname, './package.json');
const pkg = await waterfall([
apply(readFile, pkgPath, 'utf8'),
asyncify(JSON.parse)
]);
Returns Function
FAQs
Take a sync function and make it async. This is useful for plugging sync functions into a waterfall, series, or other async functions.
The npm package apr-asyncify receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, apr-asyncify popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that apr-asyncify demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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