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		drinchev on Sept 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Operations.js – Manage async operations i... I would ask : What is the benefit of operations.js vs promises? Similar to the examples you can easily do : `promiseA.then(promiseB).done( ... )`

mtford on Sept 2, 2014 [–]

Yeah, operations.js is meant for more complex scenarios than that. For example if we were spawning hundreds of operations that interact with networks/file systems. We can set an upper limit on concurrent operations using queues and express complex dependencies between them, compose them and cancel them.

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