Cloudflare Developers•2mo ago

Do not await a long running Promise and return early to user.

I am using SvelteKit and deploying to Cloudflare Pages. In my SvelteKit Form Action (which is a Pages Function I think), what happens if I don't await an async operation and instead return early to the user. For instance, I have an endpoint which deletes images from Cloudflare Images, but I'd rather not make the user wait for that to happen, so I simply don't await the Promise.all that calls the Cloudflare API. It seems to be working great, but is this problematic? Note: this delete operation is fire and forget since I'll run a cronjob to cleanup. Example:

export const actions: Actions = {
  deletePhotos: async (event) => {
    // Delete from my database (critical)
    await db.deletePhotos(...);

    // Delete from Cloudflare (non-critical)
    deletePhotosCloudflare(...);
 
    return json({success: true});
  }
}

export const actions: Actions = {
  deletePhotos: async (event) => {
    // Delete from my database (critical)
    await db.deletePhotos(...);

    // Delete from Cloudflare (non-critical)
    deletePhotosCloudflare(...);
 
    return json({success: true});
  }
}

1 Reply

Paul•2mo ago

Answered by @Jason https://discord.com/channels/595317990191398933/1284593193106538648/1284643397721784362

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Do not await a long running Promise and return early to user.