Asynchronous for cycle in JavaScript

Question

I need a loop that waits for an async call before continuing. Something like:

for ( /* ... */ ) {

  someFunction(param1, praram2, function(result) {

    //         


        

Answer 1

I needed to call some asynchronous function X times, each iteration must have happened after the previous one was done, so I wrote a litte library that can be used like this:

// https://codepen.io/anon/pen/MOvxaX?editors=0012
var loop = AsyncLoop(function(iteration, value){
  console.log("Loop called with iteration and value set to: ", iteration, value);

  var random = Math.random()*500;

  if(random < 200)
    return false;

  return new Promise(function(resolve){
    setTimeout(resolve.bind(null, random), random);
  });
})
.finished(function(){
  console.log("Loop has ended");
});

Each time user defined loop function is called, it has two arguments, iteration index and previous call return value.

This is an example of output:

"Loop called with iteration and value set to: " 0 null
"Loop called with iteration and value set to: " 1 496.4137048207333
"Loop called with iteration and value set to: " 2 259.6020382449663
"Loop called with iteration and value set to: " 3 485.5400568702862
"Loop has ended"