crowd-control

Control promises in a queue with optional timeouts.

How to Use

1. import the package and create an object.

   import Crowd from 'crowd-control';
   
   const crowd = new Crowd();

2. Add functions that return promises to the queue using control.

   import Crowd from 'crowd-control';
   
   const crowd = new Crowd();
   
   const newCrowdControlledPromise = crowd.control(async () => undefined)();

API

Class: Crowd

new Crowd()

Construct a new crowd object with an internal queue.

crowd.control(promiseCreatingFunction, [promiseCreatingFunction])([timeout])

Add a promise to be queued with a function returning a promise.

• promiseCreatingFunction: must be functions that return a promise; can be given as arguments, as arrays, or even as arguments as arrays.

Examples of promiseCreatingFunctions:

const promiseCreatingFunction1 = () => new Promise(resolve => resolve());
const proimseCreatingFunction2 = async () => undefined;

Returns a curried function to pass an option timeout.

• timeout: an amount of time to wait for the given promise before rejecting.

Returns a promise.