Designed to allow running task in a queue with parallel support. Can be used for image (package) or file loading.

• Small library: 6kb minified.
• Simple queue with custom task defined with simple function

Queues types:

1. Queue - Standard load queue, the default export.
2. CachedQueue -- Cached load queue - when adding already loaded url, it will not use queue and call success immediately (errors are not cached)

npm install load-queue --save

Library is exported via UMD. From LoadQueue object you can access to default queue, Queue and CachedQueue.

<script src="./dist/load-queue.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script>
var queue = new LoadQueue.default(loaderTask)
var queue2 = new LoadQueue.Queue(loaderTask, 1)
var queue3 = new LoadQueue.CachedQueue(loaderTask, 4)
</script>

import Queue from 'load-queue'

var queue = new Queue(loaderTask)

import {Queue} from 'load-queue'

var queue = new Queue(loaderTask)

import {CachedQueue} from 'load-queue'

var queue = new CachedQueue(loaderTask)

Before constructing queue, you must provide your own task implementation. The function will accept 3 arguments:

1. entry - An QueueEntry with an url entry.url
2. success - A callback that accepts any custom arguments that will be passed to your custom callback
3. failure - A callback for failure that accepts an error Error object

/**
 * @param {QueueEntry} entry
 * @param {function} success
 * @param {function} failure
 */
var loaderTask = function (entry, success, failure) {
        // ... loading entry.url
        setTimeout(function () {
            if (entry.url === 'url1') {
                failure(new Error('Failed!'))
            } else {
                success('my custom var', 'custom var 2')
                // or just success()
            }
        }, 1000)
    }

Queue construct accepts:

1. The task function.
2. Number of concurrent jobs that can be ran (default 1).
3. start timeout - defines if the start will use timeout function to throttle calls and give time for start -> cancel use case (when user scrolls in list and etc). Set null to turn it off. Default is 50ms (which is enough for fast scroll)

var queue = new Queue(loaderTask)
// or 
var queue = new Queue(loaderTask, 2)
// or
var queue = new CachedQueue(loaderTask)

To add a new url to load queue, just call add(url, success, error). The add method will return the QueueEntry that holds given url.

var entry = queue.add('url', function(url, customVar, customVar2) {
    console.log(url, customVar, customVar2)
}, function(error) {
  console.log(error)
})
console.log(entry.url)

// Or cancel the request
entry.cancel()

You can access to url and the cancel method. For internal use you can access to running task entry.task and call success/error callbacks (the callbacks that that executes).

You can cancel given url from queue at any time (even when loading - the callbacks wont be called). There are 2 ways how to cancel request.

1. Calling cancel(url) on queue object. Like queue.cancel('test.cz')
2. Calling cancel() on QueueEntry from add function.

If your task implementation needs to handle the cancel (like cancel the http request) then the queue will use it's own logic and then call cancel on the task.

var loaderTask = function (entry, success, failure) {
        // ... loading entry.url
        var timeout = setTimeout(function () {
            if (entry.url === 'url1') {
                failure(new Error('Failed!'))
            } else {
                success('my custom var', 'custom var 2')
                // or just success()
            }
        }, 5000)
        
        // Cancel the timeout
        this.cancel = function () {
            clearTimeout(timeout)
        }
    }

load-queue was written by Martin Kluska and is released under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2017 Martin Kluska