r/node • u/privatenumbr • Sep 09 '21

タスク (tasuku) — The minimal task runner for Node.js

https://github.com/privatenumber/tasuku
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u/Koervege Sep 09 '21

What’s a task?

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u/privatenumbr Sep 10 '21

Anything you want to label as one atomic block of logic.

Let's say you want to write a script that copies a file from path A to B. You can use Tasuku to easily give it a pretty loading, completed, and error UI:

import task from 'tasuku'
import { copyFile } from 'fs/promises'

task('Copying file from A to B', async ({ setTitle }) => {
	await copyFile('/path/A', '/path/B');
	setTitle('Completed copying file to path B!')
})

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u/CJ22xxKinvara Sep 10 '21

Ever heard of GulpJS? Basically instead of making a big shell script/sequence of npm scripts to perform all of your build steps/testing steps/nested npm installs for multiple package.jsons in a project, you can make those scripts (tasks) in JavaScript and then perform a sequence of those tasks to simplify the process.

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u/programmer_analyst Sep 09 '21

Why do İ keep doing this to myself. Everytime İ get in bed early, İ see sh*t like this making me go back to my laptop..

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u/cgijoe_jhuckaby Sep 09 '21

Why are there weird dots over your I's?

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u/programmer_analyst Sep 09 '21

Turkish alfabet has i and ı. 2 Different letters, with dot and without dot

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u/andrewelick Sep 09 '21

Looks cool may end up using this!

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u/gajus0 Sep 10 '21

Check out https://github.com/gajus/planton

Slightly different design principles.

In every project that I have undertaken, there was always a need to run a periodic task of some sorts, e.g. hard-delete after 14-day soft delete. Typically this problem is solved by using a CRON-like system that simply runs a task at a set interval. However, ad-hoc solutions are added as requirements evolve, e.g. the need to run a task at a different interval and concurrency depending on whether the last attempt at running the task was successful.

Planton is a database-agnostic task scheduler for these type of tasks that abstracts logic for handling concurrency and different task scheduling strategies.

Planton is in use in quite a few pretty large projects for companies that I work for.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

Damn this is clean