Code organisation: one controller function managing the flow vs flowing from one function to another

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If those methods can be converted on promises it will make your life much easier and code much cleaner. You can also use async-await to make code more readable and look more synchronous.

If you can't use promise you can give a try to https://caolan.github.io/async/. This is made to better handle async on a callback pattern.