Event Loop Yield Helper (src/utils.js)

gatsby · packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/utils.js · javascript · MIT
dev-tools, lang:javascript, tag:async, tag:performance, tag:utility

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.

// Source: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby | License: MIT | Copyright 2015 Gatsbyjs
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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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