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async-function
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Allow change prototype of async functions like Function.prototype but only on async functions, works only on native
const AsyncFunction = require('async-function');
const return1 = new AsyncFunction('return 1');
console.log(return1) // 'async function anonymous() {\nreturn 1\n}'
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Expose internal AsyncFunction constructor
The npm package async-function receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, async-function popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that async-function 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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