taskade

A Task (Future) implementation in TypeScript. Useful for managing asynchronous tasks that may fail.

A Task is different then a Promise because it is lazy, rather then eager. A Promise runs as soon as you instantiate it. A Task doesn't run until you call fork. Pure functions can return tasks (just not execute them). This means that you could, for example, return a task from a Redux reducer, if that's your thing.

install

npm install --save taskade

yarn add taskade

usage

import Task from 'taskade';

function parse(s) {
  return new Task(function(reject, resolve) {
    try {
      resolve(JSON.parse(s));
    }
    catch(e) {
      reject(e.message);
    }        
  });
}

parse('foo').fork(
  function(err) { console.error(err) },
  function(value) { console.log(value) }
);

docs

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