Asynchronous workflows

WebSharper supports F# asynchronous workflows on the client, implementing them with JavaScript callbacks.

As in F#, a workflow of type async<'T> represents a program that can be invoked to either succeed with a result 'T asynchronously or fail with an exception. The limitations on the client are:

• All parallelism is cooperative as the JavaScript runtime is single-threaded. You have to yield control inside a workflow to let other workflows execute. Yielding of control happens implicitly every time whenever F# inserts a call to an AsyncBuilder call. This includes where you use a let or let!, every iteration of a for or while loop, or between consecutive statements on the top level of an async block.

• There is no way to use Async.RunSynchronously.

• Cancellation is supported, in standard .NET/F# ways. If a cancellation occurs when waiting on an aynchronous remote call, the response from the server gets discarded without converting the JSON back to an object graph.