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Eric Elliott's "Composing Software" Series

A collection of links to the excellent "Composing Software" series of medium stories by Eric Elliott.

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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

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.

	# Licensed under MIT.
	# Copyright (2016) by Kevin van Zonneveld https://twitter.com/kvz
	#
	# This Makefile offers convience shortcuts into any Node.js project that utilizes npm scripts.
	# It functions as a wrapper around the actual listed in `package.json`
	# So instead of typing:
	#
	# $ npm script build:assets
	#
	# you could just as well type:

	//ABC JAZZ
	//mp3: "http://listen.radionomy.com/abc-jazz"

	//FRISKY FM
	//mp3: "http://scfire-mtc-aa02.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1015"
	http://stream2.friskyradio.com:8000/frisky_mp3_hi
	http://chill.friskyradio.com/friskychill_mp3_high

	//WWOZ
	//mp3: "http://wwoz-sc.streamguys.com/wwoz-hi.mp3"