thunk-workers

Thunk-based task scheduler that executes synchrounous and/or asynchronous tasks under concurrency control.

thunks

Demo

const thunk = require('thunks')()
const thunkWorkers = require('thunk-workers')
const workshop = thunkWorkers(2)
 
for (let i = 1; i <= 10; i++) addWork(i)
 
function addWork (id) {
  workshop(function () {
    console.log('Task ' + id + ' start:')
 
    let timer = setInterval(function () {
      process.stdout.write(String(id))
    }, 50)
 
    let time = 200 + Math.floor(1000 * Math.random())
    if (id === 10) time = 10
 
    return thunk.delay(time)(function () {
      clearInterval(timer)
      return time
    })
  })(function (error, res) {
    console.log(error || ('\nTask ' + id + ' finished, ' + res + ' ms.'))
  })
}
 
// Result:
// Task 1 start:
// Task 2 start:
// 121212121212121212
// Task 2 finished, 510 ms.
// Task 3 start:
// 13131313131313131
// Task 1 finished, 981 ms.
// Task 4 start:
// 343434343434343434343434343
// Task 3 finished, 1199 ms.
// Task 5 start:
// 45454545454
// Task 4 finished, 1031 ms.
// Task 6 start:
// 565656565656565656
// Task 6 finished, 485 ms.
// Task 7 start:
// 5757575757
// Task 5 finished, 1072 ms.
// Task 8 start:
// 78787878787
// Task 8 finished, 317 ms.
// Task 9 start:
// 7979797979
// Task 7 finished, 886 ms.
// Task 10 start:
// Task 9 finished, 284 ms.
// Task 10 finished, 10 ms.

API

const thunkWorkers = require('thunk-workers')

thunkWorkers([count])

Create a workshop that limits the number of concurrent tasks being executed.

• count: {Number} Maximum number of task threads being executed concurrently. Default to 1.

const workshop = thunkWorkers(5)

workshop(task)

Return a thunk function that executes a specific task. Tasks are queued by the time the returned thunk function is executed. Once the number of concurrent tasks is within workshop's limitation, a task is polled from the queue and executed.

• task: {Function} Support sync task or async task, task must be a function or a generator function. Async task should be thunkable function, or return a thunkable value, such as thunk function, promise, generator function, generator object.

// Support thunk function
const job = workshop(function (callback) {
  setTimeout(function () {
    callback(null, 'Async task')
  }, 100)
})
 
job(function (err, res) {
  console.log(err, res)
})
 
// Support Promise
workshop(function () {
  return Promise.resolve('promise')
})(function (err, res) {
  console.log(err, res)
})
 
// Support Generator function
workshop(function * () {
  yield thunk.delay(100)
  console.log('Generator task')
})(function (err, res) {
  console.log(err, res)
})
 
//Support async/await function
workshop(async function () {
  await Promise.resolve()
  console.log('async/await task')
})(function (err, res) {
  console.log(err, res)
})