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Asynchronous while loop for ES6 Promises.
function asyncWhile(condition, action, ctx) {
var whilst = function(data) {
return condition.call(ctx, data) ?
Promise.resolve(action.call(ctx, data)).then(whilst) :
data;
}
return whilst();
}
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IARI commented Jul 1, 2015

Won't that cause stack overflows?

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Thank you for this useful piece of code!
IARI, it doesn't cause a stack overflow because the recursion is asynchronous: .then(whilst) is called from the event loop, not from inside whilst() itself.

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