What is the best way to limit concurrency when using ES6's Promise.all()?

Question

I have some code that is iterating over a list that was queried out of a database and making an HTTP request for each element in that list. That list can sometimes be a rea

Answer 1

It can be resolved using recursion.

The idea is that initially you send maximum allowed number of requests and each of these requests should recursively continue to send itself on its completion.

function batchFetch(urls, concurrentRequestsLimit) {
    return new Promise(resolve => {
        var documents = [];
        var index = 0;

        function recursiveFetch() {
            if (index === urls.length) {
                return;
            }
            fetch(urls[index++]).then(r => {
                documents.push(r.text());
                if (documents.length === urls.length) {
                    resolve(documents);
                } else {
                    recursiveFetch();
                }
            });
        }

        for (var i = 0; i < concurrentRequestsLimit; i++) {
            recursiveFetch();
        }
    });
}

var sources = [
    'http://www.example_1.com/',
    'http://www.example_2.com/',
    'http://www.example_3.com/',
    ...
    'http://www.example_100.com/'
];
batchFetch(sources, 5).then(documents => {
   console.log(documents);
});