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Promises Cheatsheet

The document discusses JavaScript promises and key functions to use with them. It covers: 1. Creating promises with new Promise() and resolving promises with Promise.resolve(). 2. Chaining promises together using .then() to handle fulfillment and .catch() to handle rejection. 3. Common patterns like promisifying callback functions and using Promise.all() to handle multiple concurrent promises. 4. Additional resources like libraries to polyfill promises in older browsers and methods to catch errors.

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Promises Cheatsheet

The document discusses JavaScript promises and key functions to use with them. It covers: 1. Creating promises with new Promise() and resolving promises with Promise.resolve(). 2. Chaining promises together using .then() to handle fulfillment and .catch() to handle rejection. 3. Common patterns like promisifying callback functions and using Promise.all() to handle multiple concurrent promises. 4. Additional resources like libraries to polyfill promises in older browsers and methods to catch errors.

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JavaScript Promises - What You Need To Know

The four functions you need to know

1.

The two functions you should know

new Promise(fn)

Promise.resolve(value)

fntakes two arguments: resolveand reject


resolveand rejectare both functions which can be called with one argument
Returned promise will be rejected if an exception is thrown in the passed in function
2.

promise.then(onResolve, onReject)

value
valueis a promise, just returns value

Returns a promise which resolves to


If

Promise.reject(value)
value
promise.catch

Returns a rejected promise with the value

Returns a promise

Useful while processing errors with

Returned promise resolves to value returned from handler


Chain by returning a promise from

onResolveor onReject

Returned promise will be rejected if an exception is thrown in a handler


Use `Promise.reject` to return a rejected promise from
Make sure to follow by

3.

onReject

promise.catch

Patterns

Promisify a callback-accepting function

promise.catch(onReject)

fn

fntakes two arguments: callback(error, data),


erroris nullif successful, and datais null if unsuccessful.

Assume callback passed to


Returns a promise
Equivalent to

4.

promise.then(null, onReject)

Promise.all([promise1, promise2, ...])


Returns a promise
When all arguments resolve, returned promise resolves to an array of all results
When any arguments are rejected, returned promise is immediately rejected with the
same value
Useful for managing doing multiple things concurrently

Packages

where

new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {


fn(function(error, data) {
if (error) {
reject(error);
}
else {
resolve(data);
}
});
});

es6-promise - Polyfill older browsers


bluebird - Get extra promise methods
promisify-node - Promisify callback-accepting functions (npm)

Extra Reading
Are JavaScript Promises swallowing your errors?
Promises at MDN
Promise browser support at Can I Use

Catch exceptions thrown in `then` handlers

promise
.then(function() { ... })
.catch(function(err) {
console.log(err.stack);
});

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