Gaafar

Motivation

Easy access for a property in higher order functions, enables composition & piping

Examples

const strings = ["", "a"]
const filteredStrings = strings.filter(.length) // ["a"]

Gaafar

// this will not work in top level
// await makeRequest()

// this will work
makeRequest().then((result) => {
  // do something
})

Gaafar

const makeRequest = async () => {
  await callAPromise()
  await callAPromise()
  await callAPromise()
  await callAPromise()
  await callAPromise()
  throw new Error("oops");
}

makeRequest()

Gaafar

const makeRequest = () => {
  return callAPromise()
    .then(() => callAPromise())
    .then(() => callAPromise())
    .then(() => callAPromise())
    .then(() => callAPromise())
    .then(() => {
      throw new Error("oops");
    })
}

Gaafar

const makeRequest = async () => {
  const value1 = await promise1()
  const value2 = await promise2(value1)
  return promise3(value1, value2)
}

Gaafar

const makeRequest = () => {
  return promise1()
    .then(value1 => {
      // do something
      return Promise.all([value1, promise2(value1)])
    })
    .then(([value1, value2]) => {
      // do something          
      return promise3(value1, value2)
    })

Gaafar

const makeRequest = () => {
  return promise1()
    .then(value1 => {
      // do something
      return promise2(value1)
        .then(value2 => {
          // do something          
          return promise3(value1, value2)
        })
    })

Gaafar

const makeRequest = async () => {
  const data = await getJSON()
  if (data.needsAnotherRequest) {
    const moreData = await makeAnotherRequest(data)
    console.log(moreData)
    return moreData
  } else {
    console.log(data)
    return data    
  }

Gaafar

const makeRequest = () => {
  return getJSON()
    .then(data => {
      if (data.needsAnotherRequest) {
        return makeAnotherRequest(data)
          .then(moreData => {
            console.log(moreData)
            return moreData
          })
      } else {

Gaafar

const makeRequest = async () => {
  try {
    // this parse may fail
    const data = JSON.parse(await getJSON())
    console.log(data)
  } catch (err) {
    console.log(err)
  }
}