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simonplend / example-node-fetch-abortsignal.js

Last active September 2, 2021 08:30

Example of using AbortController and AbortSignal with node-fetch

	import fetch from "node-fetch";
	import { setTimeout } from "node:timers/promises";

	const cancelTimeout = new AbortController();
	const cancelRequest = new AbortController();

	async function timeout(milliseconds) {
	try {
	await setTimeout(milliseconds, undefined, { signal: cancelTimeout.signal });
	cancelRequest.abort();

simonplend / config.json

Last active February 9, 2022 23:16

Node.js v17.5.0 nightly build test - see instructions.sh

	{
	"url": "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1"
	}

simonplend / parseargs-example.mjs

Last active June 5, 2022 06:17

Example using new experimental Node.js parseArgs method (https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#utilparseargsconfig) - more new features covered at https://github.com/simonplend/whats-new-in-node-js-core

	import { parseArgs } from "node:util";

	const args = parseArgs({
	options: {
	name: {
	type: "string",
	},
	verbose: {
	type: "boolean",
	short: "v",

simonplend / 01-run-script-example.sh

Created October 12, 2022 08:49

Examples for: Command-line argument parsing with Node.js core

node script.mjs --name "Budgie" --verbose

simonplend / console-dir-example.js

Created December 21, 2022 23:58

Example showing how to log a large, deep object with infinite depth in Node.js

	/**
	* This could be any object, perhaps the
	* response from a request to an API.
	*/
	const deepObject = [
	{imGoing:{deeperUnderground:{theresToo:{muchPanic:{inThis:{town:["I'm going deeper underground","There's too much panic in this town"]}}}}}},
	{wellI:{gotToGo:{deeper:{gotToGo:{muchDeeper:true,theyGonna:{wreckItDown:true,theyGonna:["bring","it","down"]}}}}},rating:100}
	];

	// @see https://nodejs.org/api/console.html#consoledirobj-options