What is the best control flow module for node.js?

Question

I\'ve used caolan\'s async module which is very good, however tracking errors and the varying way of passing data through for control flow causes development to sometimes be ver

Answer 1

Sometimes it is hard to put all the functions in an array. When you have an array of objects and want to do something for each object, I use something like the example below.

read more in: http://coppieters.blogspot.be/2013/03/iterator-for-async-nodejs-operations.html

 var list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
 var sum = 0;

 Application.each(list, function forEachNumber(done) { 
   sum += this; 

   // next statement most often called as callback in an async operation
   // file, network or database stuff

   done(); // pass an error if something went wrong and automatically end here

 }, function whenDone(err) { 
   if (err) 
     console.log("error: " + err);
   else
     console.log("sum = " + sum); 

});

I name the functions, because it is easier to debug (and easier to read)