throat

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.

Installation

npm install throat

API

throat(concurrency)

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);

throat(concurrency, worker)

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.

License

MIT

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throat(concurrency)

throat(concurrency, worker)

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