How to return data early from workflow?

[mxmzb]

Is there a way to return data early from a workflow? For example, I might want to create a database record and return the id, then keep processing and update the record once it's finished.

I guess I could do this by extracting the work that I want to be done after I've returned the id all into one step, but that seems counter productive.

[pranaygp]

streams - https://useworkflow.dev/docs/foundations/streaming#progress-updates-for-long-running-tasks

[pranaygp]

or have steps in your workflow to do the database creations and updates if you don't need client side realtime updates from the workflow