Glassfiber

Glassfiber is an intuitive Javascript co-routine library implemented using Promises.

Requirements

It runs inside any webbrowser or NodeJS environment supporting at least ECMAScript ES2018.

Minified and gzip-compressed, it is less than 1 KB of code.

It has zero dependencies on other modules.

Basic usage

Example:

var Glassfiber = require("glassfiber.min.js");

async function threadA(a, b) {
  console.log("A starting");
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  console.log(a);
  await Glassfiber.sleep(1000);
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  console.log(b);
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  console.log("A done");
}

async function threadB(a, b, c) {
  console.log("B starting");
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  console.log(a);
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  await Glassfiber.sleep(500);
  console.log(b);
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  console.log(c);
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  console.log("B done");
}

async function threadC(a) {
  console.log("C starting");
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  await Glassfiber.sleep(250);
  console.log(a);
  await Glassfiber.yield();
  console.log("C done");
}

async function main() {
  var p1 = Glassfiber.spawn( threadA(12, 13) );
  var p2 = Glassfiber.spawn( threadB(14, 15, 16) );
  var p3 = Glassfiber.spawn( threadC(17) );
  await Promise.all([p1, p2, p3]);
}

main();

Reference documentation

API

Specified parameters:

• priority is an optional priority
  Can be 0, 1, 2 or 3 (defaults to 0 if omitted).
• ms delay in milliseconds
  

Exposed API-list (in NodeJS and the browser):

• Glassfiber.spawn(promise)
  Spawn a new co-routine. Passes through the promise.
• Glassfiber.yield(priority?)
  Give other coroutines a chance to run, specifying our own priority (lower numbers are more important). Returns a Promise.
• Glassfiber.sleep(ms)
  Sleeps for this many milliseconds, returns a Promise.

References

• js-coroutines.

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