Pseudo-Blocking Async Javascript Functions
Installation via NPM
npm install blocking
Quickstart
blocking = require 'blocking'
# an async function
get_name_async = ( id, cb ) -> ...
# trasnsform to a blocking/sync function
get_name = blocking get_name_async
# do something using the sync function
f1 = ->
# notice that we can call toUpperCase on the value
# because this function now returns sychronously
get_name( 8 ).toUpperCase()
# to execute the above function we need to unblock it
f1 = blocking.unblock f1
# and the function is async again
f1 (err, res) -> console.log err, res
FAQs
Pseudo-Blocking Async Javascript Functions
The npm package blocking receives a total of 8 weekly downloads. As such, blocking popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that blocking 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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