event-loop-spinner

Tiny helper to prevent blocking Node.js event loop.

Example

import { eventLoopSpinner } from 'event-loop-spinner';
async function cpuIntensiveOperationHandler(hugeArray) {
  for (const item of hugeArray) {
    // ...
    if (eventLoopSpinner.isStarving()) {
      await eventLoopSpinner.spin();
    }
  }
}

Reading

Node.js: How even quick async functions can block the Event-Loop, starve I/O

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