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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.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.
| // My small, family IRC server | |
| // | |
| // This file won't compile by itself because it's only one file from | |
| // my larger family server (movie hosting, Asterisk dialplan, Git | |
| // hosting, personal assistant, etc). | |
| // | |
| // Users authenticate via NICK and PASS. The USER is interpreted as a | |
| // "device" name. That allows each user to connect from multiple | |
| // devices simultaneously while still appearing as only one nick in | |
| // channels. Each nick-device combo has a queue of messages which |
| // A proxy for sending/receiving SMS via IRC | |
| // | |
| // This code is part of our family IRC server whose code is available at | |
| // https://gist.github.com/mndrix/7947009178e4a18c247b4bd25821661f | |
| // | |
| // This file won't compile by itself because it's only one file from | |
| // my larger family server (movie hosting, Asterisk dialplan, Git | |
| // hosting, personal assistant, etc). | |
| // | |
| // Copyright 2018 Michael Hendricks |
