We often need a chain of asynchronous calls, that is, a sequence of tasks where one task is started after another is completed. We are interested in an eventual result of asynchronous calls chain. In this case, we can benefit from
Continuation-passing style (CPS). JavaScript has already a built-in Promise object. We use it to create a new Promise object. We put our asynchronous task in the Promise callback and invoke the resolve function of the argument list to notify the Promise callback that the task is resolved:
"use strict";
/**
* Increment a given value
* @param {Number} val
* @returns {Promise}
*/
var foo = function( val ) {
/**
* Return a promise.
* @param {Function} resolve
*/
return new Promise(function( resolve ) {
setTimeout(function(){
resolve( val + 1 );
}, 0 );
});
};
foo( 1 ).then(function( val ){
console.log( "Result: ", val );
});
// Result: 5In the...