Futurist


Futurist helps executing promises with limited parallelism.

Install

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If you are using npm

npm install futurist

If you are using yarn

yarn add futurist
`

Usage

`js
const Futurist = require('futurist');

const futurist = new Futurist(2, 10000);

futurist.execute(() => fetch('http://example.com'))
.then(console.log)
.catch(console.error);
`

API

$3

Create a new Futurist instance to execute promises.

#### Parameters

1. maxPendingPromises: Number: Optional. Number of maximum parallel pending promises at any time (default: 5).
2. timeout: Number: Optional. Timeout in ms before a request is rejected (default: 30000). The timeout at the time of promise execution, not when adding a promise.

#### Returns

The Futurist instance

$3

Add a new promise creator to be executed as soon as possible.

$3

1. promiseCreator: Function: A function that returns the Promise to be executed.

#### Returns

A Promise that is resolved/rejected when the Promise returned by promiseCreator` is resolved/rejected or rejected when resolution takes longer than the defined timeout.