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Discussion on: Using JavaScript Promises for Non-Async Control Flow?

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Nick Taylor • Edited

As they mention, it is for async / deferred operations so not a good use case for synchronous operations. Good news though, the pipeline operator was proposed and is moving along quite well. If you want to read about it, @kayis has an article that talks about it.

In the meantime while we wait for the pipeline operator, you could compose your functions. If you're new to composition, @kyleshevlin offers a short but very clear and informative explanation in his egghead.io video, Build Complex Functions with Function Composition in JavaScript.

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Donald Merand

That's good news that JS is getting a pipeline operator! I'm occasional enough with my JS coding that I prefer to skip using build environments like Babel if I can, but it'll be awesome when that feature gets wider browser support.

I haven't watched the video, but in DuckDuckGo'ing JS composition of course it makes sense - you just manually curry your functions. I've been spoiled by languages that do that for me :)

I still like the part where promises let me pass errors through + deal with them at the end... I wonder about a good composable way to do that...

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Nick Taylor • Edited

I haven't done much RxJS, but that's probably a good use case for piping. See RxJS 5.5, piping all the things.