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make generic async function return promise when callback not present.
bluebirdArray$ npm install callback-and-promise --save
var promisify = require('callback-and-promise');
var somethingAsync = promisify(function somethingAsync(a, b, c, callback) {
callback(null, a, b, c);
});
// return a promise when callback not present
somethingAsync(a, b, c).then().catch();
// common async style
somethingAsync(a, b, c, callback);
var promisifyAll = require('callback-and-promise/all');
var fs = promisifyAll(require('fs'), {}, [
'readFile',
'writeFile',
]);
fs.readFile(__filename).then(function (buffer) {
console.log(buffer.toString());
});
name - custom function namefn - the source functionsource - the source object for the async functionsobj - the destination to set all the promisified methodsmethods - an array of method names of sourceMIT
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make generic async function return promise when callback not present
The npm package callback-and-promise receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, callback-and-promise popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that callback-and-promise 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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