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Exercise: Batching and Caching with Callback

Exercise: Batching and Caching with Callback

Practice how to implement batching and caching for an API using callbacks.

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Problem statement

Implement batching and caching for the totalSales API examples using only callbacks, streams, and events (without using promises or async/await).

Pay attention to Zalgo when returning cached values!

Coding challenge

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Template code to implement batching and caching with callbacks

Solution

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node populateDb.js

Okay! Now that everything is ready. Let’s start the server.

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node server.js

Open a new terminal and just execute the following command:

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cd app && node loadTest.js

import { createServer } from 'http'
import { totalSales } from './totalSalesCache.js'

createServer((req, res) => {
  const url = new URL(req.url, 'http://localhost')
  const product = url.searchParams.get('product')
  console.log(`Processing query: ${url.search}`)

  totalSales(product, (err, sum) => {
    if (err) {
      res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
      res.writeHead(500)
      res.end(
        JSON.stringify({
          error: 'Internal server error',
        })
      )
      return
    }
    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
    res.writeHead(200)
    res.end(
      JSON.stringify({
        product,
        sum,
      })
    )
  })
}).listen(8000, () => console.log('Server started'))
Solution code to implement batching and caching with callbacks

Explanation

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