Node-Fibers
While the other projects Iâve listed here merely compile to plain JavaScript, node-fibers actually extends the language understood by the Node runtime by adding threadlike constructs called fibers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_(computer_science)). A fiber can yield to other fibers, suspending its own execution until an event causes it run again.
| â | âvarâ fiber = Fiber.current; |
| â | console.log(â'Yielding until the timeout elapses...'â) |
| â | setTimeout(âfunctionâ() { |
| â | fiber.run(); |
| â | }, 1000); |
| â | Fiber.yield(); |
| â | console.log(â'...1 second later'â); |
The main advantage of node-fibers over JavaScript precompilers is debugging. The line numbers in node-fiber stack traces correspond to the line numbers ...
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