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node-parallelizer
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A Nodejs package for running code in parallel.
To add this package to your dependency list, run:
npm i node-parallelizer --save
AWS Lambda examples:
const { ChildProcess } = require("node-parallelizer");
// Creates a new child process instance.
const childProcess = new ChildProcess();
// Creates child processes based on your code.
childProcess.createChildProcessFromFile({ filePath: "/var/task/my-child-code.js", processBatchFunctionName: 'myFunction' });
module.exports.handler = async(event) => {
// Run batch in parallel
const responses = await childProcess.runBatch(event.Records);
console.log(responses);
};
We welcome contributions to this project. If you are interested in contributing, please feel free to submit a pull request.
FAQs
A NodeJS package for running code in parallel. Initially created to provide multiprocessing in an AWS Lambda function, but it can be used in any NodeJS environment.
The npm package node-parallelizer receives a total of 53 weekly downloads. As such, node-parallelizer popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-parallelizer 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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