How to output to console in real time in Javascript?

Question

In Javascript, when you write a piece of code like the one below, it seems like the computer will first complete the entire loop 100 000 times (which can take a second or tw

Answer 1

One could feed an array of Promises to an Observable in order to achieve the desired outcome. Promises are now native to JavaScript and you can get the Observable from the RxJS library.

Here is an example:

const array = [];

// This could also be a for of loop or a .map() function
for (let i = 0; i <= 25; i++) {
  const promise = new Promise((resolve) => {

    // This could be any synchronous or asynchronous code
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve(i);
    }, 1000 * i);
  });

  array.push(promise);
}

var observable = Rx.Observable.from(array);

observable.subscribe((promise) => {
  promise.then(result => console.log(result));
});