Long computations on Meteor

Question

I learned that in Node.js you yield in between long computations to prevent the server from blocking. How do you achieve this on Meteor? Are there techniques for al

Answer 1

Meteor uses Fibers which behave a little different than usual Node.js code. I believe there's no need to yield manually. Instead, you may want to use this.ublock() method on the server side – see this awesome article that explains it in details.

If you're doing something really heavy on the client side (like calculating Mandelbrot set), split the execution with defers:

_.defer(function() {
  doSomethingQuiteLong();
  _.defer(function() {
    doSomethingQuiteLongAgain();
    ...
  });
});