Promise.race for timeouts, fetch and avoiding memory leaks

Using Promise.race is a popular option for getting a cancellation/timeout behaviour for fetch calls, when the new AbortController is not available for use. However, there are ways to shoot yourself in the foot with this technique. I wrote a post which goes through:

1 How to use Promise.race to achieve timeouts for fetch calls
2 👾 Buggy implementation
3 ✅A safer implementation using newer features in JavaScript that won't have the problems as that in 2.

https://kgrz.io/avoiding-memory-leaks-timing-out-fetch.html

Comments

[Asad Ullah]

It would still lead to memory leaks if one of the promise never resolves. Following is the more safe solution as compared to Promise.race

github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1746...