This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:
getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
// the rest of your code goes here.
example: http://halform.herokuapp.com/
| #### Instructions ####################### | |
| # | |
| # Install Node, grunt-aglio and grunt-contrib-watch on your localhost | |
| # Create this .js file in the folder that you want Grunt to watch for changes | |
| # Replace "my_app" with your app name | |
| # Intro.md, first.md and any .md files will be watched. The order that those will be concatenated is in the array => ["intro.md","first.md",'second.md'] | |
| # | |
| ########################################## | |