About AbortController

[jonschlinkert]

The readme says the following:

However, the AbortController interface is primarily targeted at web requests, and since p-cancelable is useful for a lot more than web requests, it might be worth clarifying that in the readme.

[sindresorhus]

However, the AbortController interface is primarily targeted at web requests, and since p-cancelable is useful for a lot more than web requests, it might be worth clarifying that in the readme.

That is not entirely correct. Node.js is adding it to a lot of APIs. The stream, child_process, and fs module supports it now. Yes, AbortController started as a way to cancel web requests in the browser, since the standard committees could never decide how to add cancellation to promises. However, since there's no better alternative, a lot of projects are adopting it for everything.

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I don't plan to deprecate this package, but I also think it's better to standardize on a single thing, and it looks like AbortController is winning.

[jonschlinkert]

TIL:

Node.js is adding it to a lot of APIs. The stream, child_process, and fs module supports it now

Nice, I wasn't aware of that! I have some reading to do.

This just proves Cunningham's Law is correct, once again.

Closing, thanks!