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# throat |
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Throttle the parallelism of an asynchronous, promise returning, function / functions. This has special utility when you set the concurrency to `1`. That way you get a mutually exclusive lock. |
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[![NPM version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/throat?style=for-the-badge)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/throat) |
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## Installation |
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npm install throat |
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## API |
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### throat(concurrency) |
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This returns a function that acts a bit like a lock (exactly as a lock if concurrency is 1). |
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Example, only 2 of the following functions will execute at any one time: |
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```js |
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const throat = require('throat')(2); |
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const resA = throat(async () => { /* async stuff... */ }); |
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const resB = throat(async () => { /* async stuff... */ }); |
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const resC = throat(async () => { /* async stuff... */ }); |
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const resD = throat(async () => { /* async stuff... */ }); |
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const resE = throat(async () => { /* async stuff... */ }); |
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``` |
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### throat(concurrency, worker) |
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This returns a function that is an exact copy of `worker` except that it will only execute up to `concurrency` times in parallel before further requests are queued: |
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```js |
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const throat = require('throat'); |
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const input = ['fileA.txt', 'fileB.txt', 'fileC.txt', 'fileD.txt']; |
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const data = Promise.all( |
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input.map(throat(2, (fileName) => readFile(fileName))) |
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); |
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``` |
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Only 2 files will be read at a time, sometimes limiting parallelism in this way can improve scalability. |
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## Security contact information |
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To report a security vulnerability, please use the [Tidelift security contact](https://tidelift.com/security). Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure. |
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## License |
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MIT
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