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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.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.
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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.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.
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| * I couldn't find a super simple example of how to run Karma, PhantomJs, with | |
| * Jasmine tests via npm, so eventually I decided to create my own. Maybe | |
| * someone will find it useful. | |
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| * | |
| * Installation (using npm): | |
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| * npm install -g karma-cli | |
| * npm install -g karma --save-dev |