Question

I have the following example code – the first part can result in an async call or not – either way it should continue. I cannot put the rest of the code within the async callback since it needs to run when condition is false. So how to do this?

if(condition) {
    someAsyncRequest(function(error, result)) {
        //do something then continue
    }
}

 //do this next whether condition is true or not

I assume that putting the code to come after in a function might be the way to go and call that function within the async call above or on an else call if condition is false – but is there an alternative way that doesn’t require me breaking it up in functions?

Answer 1

Just declare some other function to be run whenever you need it :

var otherFunc = function() {
   //do this next whether condition is true or not
}

if(condition) {
    someAsyncRequest(function(error, result)) {
        //do something then continue

        otherFunc();
    }
} else {
    otherFunc();
}