Dynamic Chaining in Javascript Promises

Question

How can I perform dynamic chaining in Javascript Promises, all the time I have seen only hardcoding of the calls for eg., (promise).then(request/funct

Answer 1

Given an array functions that all return promises, you can use reduce() to run them sequentially:

var myAsyncFuncs = [
    function (val) {return Promise.resolve(val + 1);},
    function (val) {return Promise.resolve(val + 2);},
    function (val) {return Promise.resolve(val + 3);},
];

myAsyncFuncs.reduce(function (prev, curr) {
    return prev.then(curr);
}, Promise.resolve(1))
.then(function (result) {
    console.log('RESULT is ' + result);  // prints "RESULT is 7"
});

The example above uses ES6 Promises but all promise libraries have similar features.

Also, creating the array of promise returning functions is usually a good candidate for using map(). For example:

myNewOrmModels.map(function (model) {
    return model.save.bind(model);
}).reduce(function (prev, curr) {
    return prev.then(curr);
}, Promise.resolve())
.then(function (result) {
    console.log('DONE saving');
});