How to perform an async task against es6 generators in loop

Question

I understand how to use generators to make async code look nice. I have a simple generator *all, that takes a page, will return a single value.

Then I have another generator *allDo, that will use *all for pages 1 to 30 and for each result, do some async task.

Then I have another generator *allBatchDo, that will batch 3 pages, and do some async task.

function mockPromise(value) {
  return Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    resolve(value);
  });
}

function *all(page) {
  var ls = yield mockPromise("page " + page);
  // do all kinds of promises
  return yield ls;
};

function *allDo(task) {
  var page = 1;
  while (true) {
    var res = yield * all(page);

    res = yield task(res);

    if (page == 30) {
      break;
    }
    page++;
  }
}

function *allBatchDo(task) {
  var page = 1;
  var arr = [];
  while (true) {
    var res = yield * all(author, page);

    arr.push(res);
    if (arr.length >= 3) {
      yield task(arr);
      arr = [];
    }

    if (page == 30) {
      break;
    }

    page++;
  }
}

function logTask(res) {
  return mockPromise(res).then(function(v) {
    console.log(v);
  });
}

Example use of these generators would be:

// return a single page promise
async(all(1)).then(function(value) { console.log(value); });

// do `logTask` for all pages 1 thru 30
async(allDo(logTask));

// do `logTask` for all pages with batches of 10
async(allBatchDo(logTask));

The question is, is this a legitimate use of es6 async features, or is there an abstract built-in solution for my use case?

Answer 1

If you want use generators to make async then you code is valid. ES6 contains only promises to async operations. ES7 will have async/await. You can also use a good library: https://github.com/kriskowal/q or use only native promises Promise.All without generators.