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The 'fibers' npm package provides an implementation of fibers, which are a form of cooperative multitasking. This allows you to write asynchronous code in a synchronous style, making it easier to manage complex asynchronous flows.
Creating and running a fiber
This code demonstrates how to create and run a fiber. The fiber prints a message, yields control back to the main program, and then resumes to print another message.
const Fiber = require('fibers');
Fiber(function() {
console.log('Fiber started');
Fiber.yield();
console.log('Fiber resumed');
}).run();
console.log('Main program');
Yielding and resuming
This example shows how to yield and resume a fiber. The fiber yields control back to the main program, which then resumes the fiber.
const Fiber = require('fibers');
const fiber = Fiber(function() {
console.log('Fiber started');
Fiber.yield();
console.log('Fiber resumed');
});
fiber.run();
console.log('Main program');
fiber.run();
Passing data between fibers
This code demonstrates how to pass data between the main program and a fiber. The fiber receives initial data, yields a response, and then resumes with data from the main program.
const Fiber = require('fibers');
const fiber = Fiber(function(data) {
console.log('Fiber received:', data);
const response = Fiber.yield('Fiber response');
console.log('Fiber resumed with:', response);
});
const response = fiber.run('Initial data');
console.log('Main program received:', response);
fiber.run('Main program response');
The 'co' package is a generator-based control flow tool that allows you to write asynchronous code in a synchronous style using ES6 generators. Unlike 'fibers', which uses a custom fiber implementation, 'co' leverages native JavaScript generators and promises.
The 'async' package provides a collection of functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript. It offers various patterns like parallel, series, and waterfall, but does not provide the same synchronous-like coding style as 'fibers'. Instead, it focuses on managing asynchronous control flow.
The 'bluebird' package is a fully-featured promise library that provides powerful tools for managing asynchronous code. While it does not offer the same fiber-based approach as 'fibers', it provides utilities for working with promises, which can help manage complex asynchronous flows.
FAQs
Cooperative multi-tasking for Javascript
The npm package fibers receives a total of 126,917 weekly downloads. As such, fibers popularity was classified as popular.
We found that fibers demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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