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Created January 20, 2017 09:29
Pattern for using Promise-based background jobs in Node + Express.
/* A quick reminder on how to use Promises with Node and Express in order to run potentially
* time-consuming jobs asynchronously (assuming the jobs are able to run in the background thanks to
* libuv and actually return Promises).
*
* Start the server, navigate to /startjob, then refresh a few times, the job should be in progress.
* You can navigate elsewhere in the "app" in other browser tabs in the meanwhile (/). After about
* 20s, you should get a result by refreshing the tab where you originally submitted the job.
*
* I hope this pattern will be useful e.g. for processing images with the `sharp` library (see
* <http://sharp.dimens.io>).