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es6-promise

A lightweight library that provides tools for organizing asynchronous code


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What is es6-promise?

The es6-promise package is a polyfill for the ECMAScript 6 Promise. It provides a way to handle asynchronous operations in JavaScript by allowing you to associate handlers with an asynchronous action's eventual success value or failure reason. This lets asynchronous methods return values like synchronous methods: instead of immediately returning the final value, the asynchronous method returns a promise to supply the value at some point in the future.

What are es6-promise's main functionalities?

Creating a Promise

This feature allows you to create a new Promise object. The constructor of Promise takes a function that takes two arguments, resolve and reject, which are functions themselves. You perform the asynchronous operation within this function and call resolve upon successful completion with the result, or reject with an error.

var promise = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
  // do something asynchronous which eventually calls either:
  //   resolve(someValue); // fulfilled
  // or
  //   reject("failure reason"); // rejected
});

Using a Promise

This feature demonstrates how to use a Promise. Once a Promise has been created, you can attach success and failure handlers to it using the .then method. The first function passed to .then is called if the Promise is resolved, and the second is called if it is rejected.

promise.then(function(value) {
  // success
}, function(value) {
  // failure
});

Chaining Promises

Promises can be chained, meaning that the result of one promise can be used to create another promise, forming a chain of promises. This is useful for performing a series of asynchronous operations in sequence.

new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
  setTimeout(() => resolve(1), 1000);
}).then(function(result) {
  console.log(result); // 1
  return result * 2;
}).then(function(result) {
  console.log(result); // 2
  return result * 2;
}).then(function(result) {
  console.log(result); // 4
  return result * 2;
});

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ES6-Promise (subset of rsvp.js) Build Status

This is a polyfill of the ES6 Promise. The implementation is a subset of rsvp.js extracted by @jakearchibald, if you're wanting extra features and more debugging options, check out the full library.

For API details and how to use promises, see the JavaScript Promises HTML5Rocks article.

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CDN

To use via a CDN include this in your html:

<!-- Automatically provides/replaces `Promise` if missing or broken. -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/es6-promise@4/dist/es6-promise.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/es6-promise@4/dist/es6-promise.auto.js"></script> 

<!-- Minified version of `es6-promise-auto` below. -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/es6-promise@4/dist/es6-promise.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/es6-promise@4/dist/es6-promise.auto.min.js"></script> 

Node.js

To install:

yarn add es6-promise

or

npm install es6-promise

To use:

var Promise = require('es6-promise').Promise;

Usage in IE<9

catch and finally are reserved keywords in IE<9, meaning promise.catch(func) or promise.finally(func) throw a syntax error. To work around this, you can use a string to access the property as shown in the following example.

However most minifiers will automatically fix this for you, making the resulting code safe for old browsers and production:

promise['catch'](function(err) {
  // ...
});
promise['finally'](function() {
  // ...
});

Auto-polyfill

To polyfill the global environment (either in Node or in the browser via CommonJS) use the following code snippet:

require('es6-promise').polyfill();

Alternatively

require('es6-promise/auto');

Notice that we don't assign the result of polyfill() to any variable. The polyfill() method will patch the global environment (in this case to the Promise name) when called.

Building & Testing

You will need to have PhantomJS installed globally in order to run the tests.

npm install -g phantomjs

  • npm run build to build
  • npm test to run tests
  • npm start to run a build watcher, and webserver to test
  • npm run test:server for a testem test runner and watching builder

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Last updated on 06 Jun 2019

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