Provides a promise that resolves on the next event‑loop tick, allowing heavy synchronous loops to yield and keep the Node.js event loop responsive.
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// When iterating on tons of objects, we don't want to block the event loop
// this helper function returns a promise that resolves on the next tick so that the event loop can continue before we continue running blocking code
export function untilNextEventLoopTick() {
return new Promise(res => {
setImmediate(() => {
res(null)
})
})
}
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