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async-function
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A function that returns the normally hidden `AsyncFunction` constructor
A function that returns the normally hidden AsyncFunction
constructor, when available.
npm install --save async-function
const assert = require('assert');
const AsyncFunction = require('async-function')();
const fn = new AsyncFunction('return 1');
assert.equal(fn.toString(), 'async function anonymous(\n) {\nreturn 1\n}');
fn().then(x => {
assert.equal(x, 1);
});
Clone the repo, npm install
, and run npm test
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A function that returns the normally hidden `AsyncFunction` constructor
The npm package async-function receives a total of 15,109,517 weekly downloads. As such, async-function popularity was classified as popular.
We found that async-function demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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