My Biggest Rant About Observable

[mootari]

@abitrolly

That’s not always true. Fears in my head tell me there are cases when the function is not rerun if it was resolved once. But I don’t remember them.

No. Any update to any of the dependencies of a cell will cause its downstream cells to be invalidated. You can read more about it here:

How Observable Runs

Note however that Observable’s Runtime cannot account for global variables or other side effects.

@abitrolly

but here is the thing that I’ve failed to accomplish a year ago

I’d argue that’s an advanced usage pattern, but I also responded to that already: await for specific cell value - #11 by mootari

@abitrolly

Another thing I wanted to do, is to control how many GitHub API to call, or call them manually once they queued

Also an advanced usage pattern, and basically a vanilla JS throttling problem. If you want to go the extra mile, then the only addition here would be that a queued request might become invalid before it gets sent.

A simple implementation would look like this: