Waiting for a forEach to finish before return from my promise / function

Question

I am using Firebase Cloud Firestore, however, I think this may be more of a JavaScript asynchronous vs synchronous promise return issue.

I am doing a query to get ID

Answer 1

The trick here is to populate results with promises rather than the result. You can then call Promise.all() on that array of promises and get the results you want. Of course, you can't check if doc.exists before pushing the promise so you will need to deal with that once Promise.all() resolves. For example:

function getFacultyFavoritesFirebase() {
    var dbRef = db.collection("users").doc(global.user_id).collection("favorites");
    var dbQuery = dbRef.where("type", "==", "faculty");
    var dbPromise = dbQuery.get();
    // return the main promise
    return dbPromise.then(function(querySnapshot) {
        var results = [];
        querySnapshot.forEach(function(doc) {
            var docRef = db.collection("faculty").doc(doc.id);
            // push promise from get into results
            results.push(docRef.get())
        });
        // dbPromise.then() resolves to  a single promise that resolves 
        // once all results have resolved
        return Promise.all(results)
    })
    .catch(function(error) {
        console.log("Error getting documents: ", error);
    });
}

getFacultyFavoritesFirebase
.then(results => {
    // use results array here and check for .exists
}