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Expand Up @@ -973,6 +973,10 @@ chains. It allows storing data throughout the lifetime of a web request
or any other asynchronous duration. It is similar to thread-local storage
in other languages.

While you can implement your own implementation on top of the `async_hooks`
module, `AsyncLocalStorage` is a performant and memory safe implementation that
involves non-obvious optimizations.

The following example uses `AsyncLocalStorage` to build a simple logger
that assigns IDs to incoming HTTP requests and includes them in messages
logged within each request.
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