How to use named functions with Async waterfall in node.js

Lets start with a real world example where you want to create a user in CouchDB. This is a two step process that involves asking for a unique uuid and then creating a user based on that.

• The following code (+/-) abstracts out each individual step:
• But once you have the abstracted methods, how do you chain their results? This is where the waterfall approach from the Async NPM package comes in.
• Since you've already abstracted your methods, you may try something like this (+/-) to make them a little more waterfall friendly:
• And then you may try the simplest way you can think of asking waterfall to run:
• But that will fail to run because the syntax of the sentence has ended up being written in a manner where callback must be a variable that is already defined and ready to be used. Making an anonymous method here and bringing up the entire code bodies of the abstracted named-methods would defeat the readability and reuseability that we have been trying to achieve. Here's a tweak that will make it happen: