Question on collectFilesToInject function

[dman777]

I was studying your code for learning purposes. In collectFilesToInject, why do you use process.nextTick in:

  function resolve (cb) {
    process.nextTick(function () {
      cb(collection);
    });
  }

I ask this because with while (queue.length) { resolve(queue.shift()); }, it will throw these non blocking jobs on the Queue and each one will run async since I/O operations are natively non-blocking, This would be done without process.nextTick(). However, since we are using process.nextTick()...which is blocking(in contrast to setImmediate()), doesn't this defeat async nature?

[joakimbeng]

@dman777 I see. I guess I haven't read enough about those functions to understand the difference between them. Now when I have, I agree with you that setImmediate() should be used instead.