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Node.js Design Patterns

You're reading from   Node.js Design Patterns Design and implement production-grade Node.js applications using proven patterns and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214110
Length 664 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Luciano Mammino Luciano Mammino
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Mario Casciaro Mario Casciaro
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Preface 1. The Node.js Platform 2. The Module System FREE CHAPTER 3. Callbacks and Events 4. Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns with Callbacks 5. Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns with Promises and Async/Await 6. Coding with Streams 7. Creational Design Patterns 8. Structural Design Patterns 9. Behavioral Design Patterns 10. Universal JavaScript for Web Applications 11. Advanced Recipes 12. Scalability and Architectural Patterns 13. Messaging and Integration Patterns 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

The problem with infinite recursive promise resolution chains

At this point in the chapter, you should have a strong understanding of how promises work and how to use them to implement the most common control flow constructs. This is therefore the right time to discuss an advanced topic that every professional Node.js developer should know and understand. This advanced topic is about a memory leak caused by infinite Promise resolution chains. The bug seems to affect the actual Promises/A+ specification, so no compliant implementation is immune.

It is quite common in programming to have tasks that don't have a predefined ending or take as an input a potentially infinite array of data. We can include in this category things like the encoding/decoding of live audio/video streams, the processing of live cryptocurrency market data, and the monitoring of IoT sensors. But we can have much more trivial situations than those, for example, when making heavy use of functional programming...

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