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async
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caolan / async

async

Async utilities for node and the browser

76Distinct people
81Mentions
2Explicit recommenders
28.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Async utilities for node and the browser

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 8:59:20 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year81 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-10-12 01:05:50 UTC to 2020-01-21 18:21:07 UTC.

051015202010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 1 submissions, 17 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 0 submissions, 21 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 0 submissions, 18 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18117
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21021
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18018
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
Async is a utility module which provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript. Although originally designed for use with Node.js and installable via npm i async, it can also be used directly in the browser. An ESM/MJS version is included in the main async package that should automatically be used with compatible bundlers such as Webpack and Rollup. A pure ESM version of Async is available as async-es. For Documentation, visit https://caolan.github.io/async/ For Async v1.5.x documentation, go HERE // for use with Node-style callbacks... var async = require("async"); var obj = {dev: "/dev.json", test: "/test.json", prod: "/prod.json"}; var configs = {}; async.forEachOf(obj, (value, key, callback) => { fs.readFile(__dirname + value, "utf8", (err, data) => { if (err) return callback(err); try { configs[key] = JSON.parse(data); } catch (e) { return callback(e); } callback(); }); }, err => { if (err) console.error(err.message); // configs is now a map of JSON data doSomethingWith(configs); }); var async = require("async"); // ...or ES2017 async functions async.mapLimit(urls, 5, async function(url) { const response = await fetch(url) return response.body }, (err, results) => { if (err) throw err // results is now an array of the response bodies console.log(results) })
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