Continue JS

A tiny library that makes building complex bots and workflows a little easier.

To learn more about what Continue JS is and how it works see the project repository

Installing

Continue JS requires a recent version of NodeJS and your package manager of choice. To add the latest version of Continue JS to your app using NPM, type the following from your apps root directory:

$ npm install @stevenic/continue-js --save

Usage

Here's a simple JavaScript app to get started. This app calls a test continuation 5 times. To learn why that's useful see the project repository:

const { canContinueWith, continueWith, continueNow, dontContinue } = require('@stevenic/continue-js');

// Define test continuation
async function testContinuation(context) {
    // Print call number and increment iteration count
    console.log(`This is call ${++context.iterations} of ${context.maxIterations}`);
    
    // Chain back to self until max iterations met. 
    // - Recursion without using recursion :)
    if (context.iterations < context.maxIterations) {
        return await continueWith(testContinuation);
    } else {
        return await dontContinue();
    }
}

// Register continuations with library
canContinueWith(testContinuation);

// Execute test continuation 5 times
(async () => {
    // Define a context object that will be passed to the continuation
    const context = { iterations: 0, maxIterations: 5 };

    // Create initial continuation using continueWith()
    let continuation = await continueWith(testContinuation);

    // Loop over continuations until told we're done
    // - continueNow() executes the current continuation and returns the next one
    while (!continuation.done) {
        continuation = await continueNow(continuation, context);
    }
})();

Building

To build Continue JS and its samples fork the project and clone it to your desktop using git. Then install and build the packages using your package manager of choice. Using NPM:

$ cd continue-js
$ npm install
$ npm run build