Name: Run Concurrent Tasks With a Limit Using Pure JavaScript
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Author: artydev

Run Concurrent Tasks With a Limit Using Pure JavaScript

artydev - Jul 28 '23 -

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In his article Maxim Orlov shows an astonishing way to implement concurent tasks in Javascript

It's all based on the fact that iterators objects are consumed when they are iterated, through a loop for example.

So if you run multiple loops an the same iterator, you are assured that an item will be retrieved only once

Here is a demo ConurentTastUsingIterators:

function delay(ms) {
  return new Promise((res,err) => {
    setTimeout (res, ms)
  })
}

async function doWork(iterator) {
  for  (const value of iterator) {
    await delay(1000)
    console.log(value)
  }
}

const iterator = Array.from('abcdefghi').values();

// Run async tasks with a concurrency limit of 3
const workers = new Array(3).fill(iterator).map(doWork);

// Wait until all tasks are done
Promise.allSettled(workers).then(() => console.log('Done!'));