[ES7] Await multi promises sequentially or concurrently

Somtime 'async await' can have a bad effect on code proferemence. Let's take a look the below example:

const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const BASE_URL = 'https://api.github.com/users';

class GithubUser {
    async fetchGitHubUser(handle) {
        const response = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}/${handle}`);
        const body =  await response.json();

        if (response.status !== 200) {
            throw Error(body.message);
        }

        return body;
    }

    async fetchGitHubRepos(handle) {
        const response = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}/${handle}/repos`);
        const body = await response.json();

        if (response.status !== 200) {
            throw Error(body.message);
        }

        return body;
    }
}

(async () => {
    const github = new GithubUser();

    try {
        const user = await github.fetchGitHubUser('zhentian-wan');
        const repos = await github.fetchGitHubRepos('zhentian-wan');
        console.log(user);
        console.log(repos);
    } catch(err) {
        console.error(err);
    }


})();

 

In the example, we are doing two await operations sequentially:

        const user = await github.fetchGitHubUser('zhentian-wan');
        const repos = await github.fetchGitHubRepos('zhentian-wan');

Remember that 'await' will pause the JS execution until promise resolve or reject.

So if one api request cost 0.5s then two in sequence will cose 1s. 

 

The way to solve the problem is by converting operations to concurrently:

        const userPromise = github.fetchGitHubUser('zhentian-wan');
        const reposPromise = github.fetchGitHubRepos('zhentian-wan');

        const user = await userPromise;
        const repos = await reposPromise;

        console.log(user.name);
        console.log(repos.length);

 

Or we can use Promise.all:

        const [user, repos] = await Promise.all([
                        github.fetchGitHubUser('zhentian-wan'),
                        github.fetchGitHubRepos('zhentian-wan')
                    ]);

        console.log(user.name, repos.length);

 

Of course, tow approaches are not the same, Promise.all will throw error if one of the request throw error.