Understanding `context.async`

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Here almost a year later, but I did notice that context.async seems to be working now.

Only bumping this incase someone did want to use it; I’d recommend declaring a function within the larger run_server function:

function(properties, context) {
//...
function myAsyncFunction() {
  return context.async(async callback => {
            try {
                let return_var = "never set in code";
                // ...
                // do your processing here
                // ...
                return_var = "something_here"; // update return var
                callback(null, return_var);
            }
            catch (err) {
                callback(err);
            }
        });
}
//...
}

The reason for this is so that you can control when to call the function. The traditional method @vini_brito mentions is probably still good to, but I went with context.async because I wanted to be sure it would work on Bubble’s backend workflows.

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