node-fibers – Tarik Billa

“Meteor code must always run within a Fiber” when calling Collection.insert on server

August 22, 2023 by Tarik

Just wrapping your function in a Fiber might not be enough and can lead to unexpected behavior. The reason is, along with Fiber, Meteor requires a set of variables attached to a fiber. Meteor uses data attached to a fiber as a dynamic scope and the easiest way to use it with 3rd party api … Read more

How to wrap async function calls into a sync function in Node.js or Javascript?

December 1, 2022 by Tarik

deasync turns async function into sync, implemented with a blocking mechanism by calling Node.js event loop at JavaScript layer. As a result, deasync only blocks subsequent code from running without blocking entire thread, nor incuring busy wait. With this module, here is the answer to the jsFiddle challenge: function AnticipatedSyncFunction(){ var ret; setTimeout(function(){ ret = … Read more