Feature request to add a flush option to the queues

[christianjuth]

I know this might sound a little weird for a rate limiting library, but let me explain. I plan on running several queues in my app – one for each API endpoint. There are certain actions a user can perform where I might want to speed up one of the queues for a specific endpoint. So collectively the queues work together to make sure I don't get rate limited, but I want the flexibility to say "a user wants all the data this queue is processing immediately. Let's speed things up."

import { queue } from '@tanstack/pacer'

const queue = queue<number>()

queue.addItem()
queue.addItem()

// New method that forces all items to process immediately
queue.flush()

// Bonus! The ability to flush n number of items
queue.flush(3)

The same goes for the async queue.

[KevinVandy]

Did you mean to ask this in the pacer repo? We do plan to add flush to at least the debouncer and throttler, but I don't think to the queuer, because that's pretty much what the batcher is for.

Well maybe since what you're asking for is a peekAllItems followed by reset, maybe we should just add a flushAllItems API that is a shortcut for that.