Idiomatic way to wait for multiple callbacks in Node.js

Question

Suppose you need to do some operations that depend on some temp file. Since we\'re talking about Node here, those operations are obviously asynchronous. What is the idiomati

Answer 1

// simple countdown latch
function CDL(countdown, completion) {
    this.signal = function() { 
        if(--countdown < 1) completion(); 
    };
}

// usage
var latch = new CDL(10, function() {
    console.log("latch.signal() was called 10 times.");
});