m-padlock

Create a Promise based mutex

Installing

npm install m-padlock --save

Examples

Use cases for mutexes are slim in nodejs, given the single threaded async nature. Very rarely there are cases such as concurrent transactions that would be preferable to run one at a time.

const Mutex = require('m-padlock');
const mutex = new Mutex();


// Using async/await (Node v8+)
const unlock = await mutex.lock();
await postgres.transaction(trx => {
  // do work
});
unlock();

// Using promises
mutex.lock()
  .then(unlock => {
    return postgres.transaction(trx => {
      // do work
    })
    .then(() => unlock());
  });

Tests

From the m-padlock root directory run:

npm install
npm run test

This will generate a coverage report inside the root directory in a new directory called coverage

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details