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A curated list of useful resources for JavaScript Promises
 
Inspired by the awesome (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) list thing. Not to be confused with other awesome promises like "I promise you a million dollars" or "I promise you'll stay fit and never have to go to the gym again".
 
Table of Contents
 
- Resources, Blogs, and Books (#resources-blogs-and-books)
- Promises/A+ Implementations (ES6/ES2015 compatible) (#promisesa-implementations-es6es2015-compatible)
- Strict Implementations (#strict-implementations)
- Implementations with extras (#implementations-with-extras)
- Fallbacks (#fallbacks)
- Convenience Utilities (#convenience-utilities)
 
Resources, Blogs, and Books
 
For beginners
Promise Cookbook (https://github.com/mattdesl/promise-cookbook) - The why, what, and how. "A brief introduction ... primarily aimed at frontend developers".
Promises for Asynchronous Programming (http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_promises.html) - Chapter from Exploring ES6 (http://exploringjs.com/)
You Don't Know JS: Promises (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async%20&%20performance/ch3.md) - Chapter from You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance
(https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/tree/master/async%20%26%20performance)
JavaScript Promises: an Introduction (https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/primers/promises) - Basics of JavaScript's native promise implementation.
JavaScript with Promises (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032151.do) - from O'Reilly. Short and to-the-point. Uses native and bluebird.
Promise it won't hurt (https://github.com/stevekane/promise-it-wont-hurt) - An interactive nodeschool (https://nodeschool.io/) workshop
ES6 Kata Promises (http://es6katas.org/) - Promises Katas : Basics (http://tddbin.com/#?kata=es6/language/promise/basics)
ES6 Promises in Depth (https://ponyfoo.com/articles/es6-promises-in-depth)
An Incremental Tutorial on Promises (http://www.sohamkamani.com/blog/2016/08/28/incremenal-tutorial-to-promises/) - An FAQ styled tutorial for beginners.
 
Deep Dive
Promise Fun (https://github.com/sindresorhus/promise-fun) - @sindresorhus's notes, patterns, and solutions to common Promise problems
You're Missing the Point of Promises (https://blog.domenic.me/youre-missing-the-point-of-promises/) - Promises are much more than callback aggregation, and that jQuery's implementation (prior to 3.0) isn't enough.
We have a problem with promises (https://pouchdb.com/2015/05/18/we-have-a-problem-with-promises.html) - "Many of us are using promises without really understanding them."
Promise anti-patterns (https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Promise-anti-patterns) - Common misuses and how to avoid them.
Promise anti-patterns (2) (http://taoofcode.net/promise-anti-patterns/) - Another set of promises anti-patterns
Promise Ponderings, (Anti-)Patterns, and Apologies (https://sdgluck.github.io/2015/08/24/promise-ponderings-patterns-apologies/) - Promise behaviour demonstrated and explained by common questions and their answers.
Javascript Promises...In Wicked Detail (http://www.mattgreer.org/articles/promises-in-wicked-detail/) - Recreate the promise implementation
Writing Promise-Using Specifications (https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/promises-guide) - "This document gives guidance on how to write specifications that create, accept, or manipulate promises"
Async functions - making promises friendly (https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/primers/async-functions)
 
References
Promises/A+ specification (https://promisesaplus.com/)
caniuse promises (http://caniuse.com/#feat=promises)
Fates and States (https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping/blob/master/docs/states-and-fates.md) - Quick definitions of possible states.
Promisees (https://bevacqua.github.io/promisees/) - Promise visualization playground for the adventurous.
 
Promises/A+ Implementations (ES6/ES2015 compatible)
 
Strict Implementations
These implement no more or less than the es6 spec. They make great polyfills and are exceptionally compatible with native promises.
 
pinkie (https://github.com/floatdrop/pinkie) - Ponyfill. Node-oriented, but browserifyable (https://github.com/substack/node-browserify). Extremely small implementation.
native-promise-only (https://github.com/getify/native-promise-only) - Polyfill. Browser and node-compatible.
es6-promise (https://github.com/stefanpenner/es6-promise) - Opt-in polyfill. A strict-spec subset of rsvp.js.
lie (https://github.com/calvinmetcalf/lie) - Small, browserifyable with an opt-in polyfill.
 
Implementations with extras
All of these provide more features than the language yet remain compatible. Node + Browsers for all.
 
bluebird (https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird) - Fully featured, extremely performant. Long stack traces & generator/coroutine support.
creed (https://github.com/briancavalier/creed) - Hyper performant & full featured like Bluebird, but FP-oriented. Coroutines, generators, promises, ES2015 iterables, & fantasy-land spec.
rsvp.js (https://github.com/tildeio/rsvp.js/) - Lightweight with a few extras. Compatible down to IE6!
Q (https://github.com/kriskowal/q) - One of the original implementations. Long stack traces and other goodies.
then/promise (https://github.com/then/promise) - Small with nodeify, denodify and done() additions.
when.js (https://github.com/cujojs/when) - Packed with control flow, functional, and utility methods.
 
 
Fallbacks
native-or-bluebird (https://www.npmjs.com/package/native-or-bluebird) - Helps transition to completely native.
pinkie-promise (https://github.com/floatdrop/pinkie-promise) - Use native, or fall back to pinkie. Great for node library authors.
any-promise (https://github.com/kevinbeaty/any-promise) - Loads the first available implementation. Safe for browserify.
 
Convenience Utilities
Native and strictly spec-compliant promises are awesome for compatibility, future-proofness, library authors, and browsers. However, libraries like bluebird patch goodies onto the Promise constructor and prototype. Solution? tiny modules of
course!
 
sindresorhus's many Promise utilities (see notes (https://github.com/sindresorhus/promise-fun))
delay (https://github.com/sindresorhus/delay) - Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
pify (https://github.com/sindresorhus/pify) - Promisify ("denodify") a callback-style function.
loud-rejection (https://github.com/sindresorhus/loud-rejection) - Make unhandled promise rejections fail loudly instead of the default silent fail.
hard-rejection (https://github.com/sindresorhus/hard-rejection) - Make unhandled promise rejections fail hard right away instead of the default silent fail
p-queue (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-queue) - Promise queue with concurrency control
p-break (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-break) - Break out of a promise chain
p-lazy (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-lazy) - Create a lazy promise that defers execution until .then() or .catch() is called
p-defer (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-defer) - Create a deferred promise
p-if (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-if) - Conditional promise chains
p-tap (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-tap) - Tap into a promise chain without affecting its value or state
p-map (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-map) - Map over promises concurrently
p-all (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-all) - Run promise-returning & async functions concurrently with optional limited concurrency
p-limit (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-limit) - Run multiple promise-returning & async functions with limited concurrency
p-times (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-times) - Run promise-returning & async functions a specific number of times concurrently
p-catch-if (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-catch-if) - Conditional promise catch handler
p-time (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-time) - Measure the time a promise takes to resolve
p-log (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-log) - Log the value/error of a promise
p-filter (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-filter) - Filter promises concurrently
p-settle (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-settle) - Settle promises concurrently and get their fulfillment value or rejection reason
p-memoize (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-memoize) - Memoize promise-returning & async functions
p-whilst (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-whilst) - Calls a function repeatedly while a condition returns true and then resolves the promise
p-throttle (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-throttle) - Throttle promise-returning & async functions
p-debounce (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-debounce) - Debounce promise-returning & async functions
p-retry (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-retry) - Retry a promise-returning or async function
p-wait-for (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-wait-for) - Wait for a condition to be true
p-timeout (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-timeout) - Timeout a promise after a specified amount of time
p-race (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-race) - A better Promise.race()
p-try (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-try) - Promise#try() ponyfill - Starts a promise chain
p-finally (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-finally) - Promise#finally() ponyfill - Invoked when the promise is settled regardless of outcome
p-any (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-any) - Wait for any promise to be fulfilled
p-some (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-some) - Wait for a specified number of promises to be fulfilled
p-pipe (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-pipe) - Compose promise-returning & async functions into a reusable pipeline
p-each-series (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-each-series) - Iterate over promises serially
p-map-series (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-map-series) - Map over promises serially
p-reduce (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-reduce) - Reduce a list of values using promises into a promise for a value
p-props (https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-props) - Like Promise.all() but for Map and Object
 
Others
promise-method (https://github.com/wbinnssmith/promise-method) - Standalone bluebird.method. Turn a synchronously-returning method into a promise-returning one.
is-promise (https://github.com/then/is-promise) - Determine if something looks like a Promise.
sprom (https://github.com/then/sprom) - Resolve when a stream ends. Optional buffering (be careful with this!)
task.js (https://github.com/mozilla/task.js) - Write async functions in a blocking style using promises and generators. Like bluebird.coroutine.
co (https://github.com/tj/co) - Like task.js and bluebird.coroutine, but supports thunks too.
lie-fs (https://www.npmjs.com/package/lie-fs) - Promise wrappers for Node's FS API.
promise-do-until (https://github.com/busterc/promise-do-until) - Calls a function repeatedly until a condition returns true and then resolves the promise.
promise-do-whilst (https://github.com/busterc/promise-do-whilst) - Calls a function repeatedly while a condition returns true and then resolves the promise.
promise-semaphore (https://github.com/samccone/promise-semaphore) - Push a set of work to be done in a configurable serial fashion
promise-nodeify (https://github.com/kevinoid/promise-nodeify) - Standalone nodeify method which calls a Node-style callback on resolution or rejection.
 
License
Licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
 
promises Github: https://github.com/wbinnssmith/awesome-promises