writing a while loop in node.js

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In c# I would do this -

double progress = 0;
while (progress < 100) 
{ 
    var result = await PerformAsync(); 
    progress = result.Progress; 
    await Task.Delay(); 
}

A nice simple 7 lines of code. What's the equivalent in node.js ? Basically need a while loop that checks a condition, and until that condition is met, sleeps and then executes some async operation.

There are similar concepts in future version of JS but still there are alternative libraries for this. you can have a look at it https://github.com/yortus/asyncawait — Harpreet Singh, Aug 17 '15 at 05:35

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 18 '20 at 07:37

There's a fundamental paradigm shift when you think in the Node.js way.

As had been written and said about in node " Everything runs in parallel except your code" . JS is single threaded and hence if you make that thread sleep , everything blocks.

But if you model your problem in a natural way , it would be to design an async operation that would take its time to run and when its finished let it inform you of the same. Rather than you waiting for it to finish.

This you would design your async (performAsync) operation to emit events and then provide a callback to be performed when that event occurs.

So it's even more compact and natural. Your code might look like

performAsync().on('result',function cb () {// do what pleases you});

Inaimathi · Answer 2 · 2015-08-17T13:45:12.710

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In general, when you have a question of the form

"There's a thing I can do in language A; how do I do it in language B?"

check hyperpolyglot. It's a page that provides summaries of certain terms and concepts across various language classes.

The scripting page shows you, among other things, how to use a while loop in JS, Python, Ruby and PHP.

edited Aug 17 '15 at 13:45

answered Aug 17 '15 at 13:25

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

Node.js, as you guess, its a javascript file. So you can use javascript codes. But there is a few differ about what should you use. In exmaple; with Node.js you can want to use sync while;

var page = 2;
var last_page = 100;

(function loop() {
    if (page <= last_page) {
        request("/data?page=" + page, function (error, response, body) {
            if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
                store_data(body)
            }
            page++;
            loop();
        });
    }
}());

On the example we call loop() function in loop(), so not on technically but on practically we are using loop.

Async example : async for loop in node.js

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 17 '15 at 05:36

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Take a look at https://github.com/caolan/async which have a lot of methods for such synchronous tasks.

answered Aug 17 '15 at 05:36

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