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CAF (Cancelable Async Flows) is a small utility that brings cooperative cancellation to JavaScript async workflows. It wraps async generators or promise-returning functions so they can respond to a cancel signal and halt work early, preventing wasted CPU and stray side effects. The library encourages a disciplined pattern: pass a token into your task, periodically check it, and unwind gracefully when cancellation is requested.

...The library arrived before async/await existed in Node.js and influenced how developers thought about structuring asynchronous programs. Even in a world with native async functions, co remains a concise illustration of cooperative concurrency and still works where generator syntax is preferred. Its API surface is intentionally tiny: wrap a generator, yield work, and let co drive the promise plumbing behind the scenes.