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Mastering JavaScript Async Iterators: Unlocking Asynchronous Magic

Luca Del Puppo on September 08, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of JavaScript, staying up-to-date with its latest features is crucial for writing efficient and modern code. One suc...
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artydev

Great thank you :-)

You could be interested by JSCoroutines

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Luca Del Puppo

I’ve never seen it before! But I’ll take a look at it in the following weeks 🙂
Thanks for the advice 🙂

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Mike Talbot ⭐

My write up on how JSCoroutines works:

It uses generators a lot, but mostly to create imperative animations or smooth reactions by splitting operations over multiple frames to avoid jank (like some of the new React stuff).

I use a lot of AsyncIterators in my code, mostly around streaming the reaction to periodic events.

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Sascha Picard • Edited

Great write up!
I wonder about use cases where async generators shine. Happy to hear about real world examples.

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Luca Del Puppo

Hey Sascha,
One of the common use cases is when you stream in Nodejs and you need to transform data. In NodeJs, streams already implement the Async Iterators interface too.
Another great example is infinitive loading in a Frontend Application, for instance. Let me know if I answered to your doubts 🙂

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Sascha Picard

No doubts :) Thank you!

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Shubhankar Valimbe

I really enjoyed this article on async iterators! I'm still learning about them, but I can see how they can be a powerful tool for writing asynchronous code. I'm definitely going to try to use them more in my own projects.

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Luca Del Puppo

Glad the article was appreciated 🙌

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Hasan Elsherbiny

amazing explanation 👏👏

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Patric

Very good explanation

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Luca Del Puppo

Thanks Patric! I’m glad you’ve appreciated the article 🙌