The promisify and callbackify APIs in Node.js provide a means of bridging between a Promise-based programming model and a callback-based model.
The promisify method allows taking a Node.js-style callback function and converting it into a Promise-returning async function:
import { promisify } from "node:util";
function foo(args, callback) {
try {
callback(null, 1);
} catch (err) {
// Errors are emitted to the callback via the first argument.
callback(err);
}
}
const promisifiedFoo = promisify(foo);
await promisifiedFoo(args);Similarly to promisify, callbackify converts a Promise-returning async function into a Node.js-style callback function:
import { callbackify } from 'node:util';
async function foo(args) {
throw new Error('boom');
}
const callbackifiedFoo = callbackify(foo);
callbackifiedFoo(args, (err, value) => {
if (err) throw err;
});callbackify and promisify make it easy to handle all of the challenges that come with bridging between callbacks and promises.
Refer to the Node.js documentation for callbackify ↗ and Node.js documentation for promisify ↗ for more information.
The util.types API provides a reliable and efficient way of checking that values are instances of various built-in types.
import { types } from "node:util";
types.isAnyArrayBuffer(new ArrayBuffer()); // Returns true
types.isAnyArrayBuffer(new SharedArrayBuffer()); // Returns true
types.isArrayBufferView(new Int8Array()); // true
types.isArrayBufferView(Buffer.from("hello world")); // true
types.isArrayBufferView(new DataView(new ArrayBuffer(16))); // true
types.isArrayBufferView(new ArrayBuffer()); // false
function foo() {
types.isArgumentsObject(arguments); // Returns true
}
types.isAsyncFunction(function foo() {}); // Returns false
types.isAsyncFunction(async function foo() {}); // Returns true
// .. and so onFor more about util.types, refer to the Node.js documentation for util.types ↗.
util.MIMEType provides convenience methods that allow you to more easily work with and manipulate MIME types ↗. For example:
import { MIMEType } from "node:util";
const myMIME = new MIMEType("text/javascript;key=value");
console.log(myMIME.type);
// Prints: text
console.log(myMIME.essence);
// Prints: text/javascript
console.log(myMIME.subtype);
// Prints: javascript
console.log(String(myMIME));
// Prints: application/javascript;key=valueFor more about util.MIMEType, refer to the Node.js documentation for util.MIMEType ↗.