Promise Pattern

A promise is an object that may produce a single value some time in the future.

While synchronous code is easier to follow and debug, async is generally better for performance and flexibility and a promise is an object which can be returned synchronously from an asynchronous function.

Promise Example

var isMomHappy = true;

// Promise
var willIGetNewPhone = new Promise(
    function (resolve, reject) {
        if (isMomHappy) {
            var phone = {
                brand: 'Samsung',
                color: 'black'
            };
            resolve(phone);
        } else {
            var reason = new Error('mom is not happy');
            reject(reason);
        }

    }
);


// call our promise
var askMom = function () {
    willIGetNewPhone
        .then(function (fulfilled) {
            // yay, you got a new phone
            console.log(fulfilled);
        })
        .catch(function (error) {
            // ops, mom don't buy it
            console.log(error.message);
        });
}

askMom();