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Throttle the parallelism of an asynchronous (promise returning) function / functions
The 'throat' npm package is a utility for limiting the number of concurrent asynchronous operations. It is particularly useful when you need to control the rate of operations to avoid overwhelming resources or hitting rate limits.
Limit Concurrent Promises
This feature allows you to limit the number of concurrent promises. In this example, only 2 tasks will run concurrently.
const throat = require('throat')(2);
const tasks = [
() => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve('Task 1'), 1000)),
() => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve('Task 2'), 500)),
() => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve('Task 3'), 300)),
() => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve('Task 4'), 200))
];
Promise.all(tasks.map(throat(task => task()))).then(results => {
console.log(results); // ['Task 1', 'Task 2', 'Task 3', 'Task 4']
});
Limit Concurrent Function Calls
This feature allows you to limit the number of concurrent function calls. In this example, only 1 task will run at a time.
const throat = require('throat')(1);
const task = (name, delay) => () => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve(name), delay));
const tasks = [
task('Task 1', 1000),
task('Task 2', 500),
task('Task 3', 300),
task('Task 4', 200)
];
Promise.all(tasks.map(throat(task => task()))).then(results => {
console.log(results); // ['Task 1', 'Task 2', 'Task 3', 'Task 4']
});
The 'p-limit' package provides similar functionality by limiting the number of concurrent promises. It offers a more modern API and is often used in conjunction with other promise utilities from the 'p-*' family of packages.
The 'async' package is a comprehensive utility library for asynchronous operations. It includes a 'queue' function that can limit the number of concurrent tasks, among many other features. It is more feature-rich but also more complex than 'throat'.
The 'promise-limit' package is another alternative for limiting the number of concurrent promises. It is lightweight and straightforward, similar to 'throat', but with a slightly different API.
Throttle the parallelism of an asynchronous, promise returning, function / functions. This has special utility when you set the concurrency to 1
. That way you get a mutually exclusive lock.
npm install throat
This returns a function that acts a bit like a lock (exactly as a lock if concurrency is 1).
Example, only 2 of the following functions will execute at any one time:
const throat = require('throat')(2);
// alternatively provide your own promise implementation
const throat = require('throat')(require('promise'))(2);
const promise = Promise.resolve();
const resA = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
const resB = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
const resC = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
const resD = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
const resE = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
This returns a function that is an exact copy of worker
except that it will only execute up to concurrency
times in parallel before further requests are queued:
const throat = require('throat');
// alternatively provide your own promise implementation
const throat = require('throat')(require('promise'));
const input = ['fileA.txt', 'fileB.txt', 'fileC.txt', 'fileD.txt'];
const data = Promise.all(input.map(throat(2, fileName => readFile(fileName))));
Only 2 files will be read at a time, sometimes limiting parallelism in this way can improve scalability.
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Throttle the parallelism of an asynchronous (promise returning) function / functions
The npm package throat receives a total of 10,321,087 weekly downloads. As such, throat popularity was classified as popular.
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