npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2026 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

await.js

v0.0.5

Published

Node's await implement powered by v8's generator

Readme

#await.js Invoke asynchronous functions in a synchronous way, so you can get rid of the callback hell.
Thanks to Node's new feature "generator", it is light-weight and pure JavaScript;)

##Installation

npm install await.js

##Usage Patterns First, as it usually goes:

var await = require('await.js');

Then You need to wrap your code as a function with two paramters await and defer, which should be marked with * to tell Node this is a generator.
Pass the function to await.async

await.async(function* (await, defer) {
  
});

Inside the generator we can call asynchronous functions as if it's synchronous. Here we give a example of fs.readFile to show you how to do it.
Pass defer as a callback to the asynchronous function you want to invoke.

fs.readFile('textFile', defer)

Add a yield just before the invoke and wrap them all into await, which will magically return the callback result.

var fileContent = await(yield fs.readFile('textFile', defer));

yield is necessary because it is what enables us to pause the current flow and wait for the asynchronous invoke returning its result. ##Exceptions Error will be automatically thrown if any. So feel relax to use try/catch:

  try {
    var data = await(yield fs.readFile("textFile", defer));
    console.log(data.toString());
  }
  catch (e) {
    console.log("Error catched: ", e.toString());
  }

The missing sleep function for Node

yield await(5000);//sleep for 5 seconds

It just works;)

##Attention

  • Generator is only available in Node v0.11, so the devel version of Node is required and you need to pass the --harmony flag through to Node to make await.js work. Just don't worry about it as the stable release supporting generator on its way.
  • It is assumed that the callback function receives two arguments, the first as a error and the second as the result. So if there are multiple results you can only get the first one.

##License Do What the Fuck You Want to