JavaScript Wait until all async calls finish

Question

I need some help with handling async calls in JavaScript. I have a for loop, each loop calls an async HttpRequest, and adds its response to an array. I want the program to wait

Answer 1

With promises, you should not use a callback parameter. Call the resolve/reject functions from the promise instead.

Instead of passing a callback to the call, chain the things you want to do with the result of the promise in a .then handler.

function httpGet(theUrl) {
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
        var xmlRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xmlRequest.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if (xmlRequest.readyState == 4) {
                if (xmlRequest.status == 200) 
                    resolve(xmlRequest.responseText);
    //              ^^^^^^^
                else
                    reject(new Error(xmlRequest.statusText)); // or something
            }
        }
        xmlRequest.open("GET", theUrl, true);
        xmlRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        xmlRequest.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
        xmlRequest.send(null);
    });
}
$(document).ready(function() {    
    var channels = ["freecodecamp", "storbeck", "terakilobyte", "habathcx", "RobotCaleb", "thomasballinger", "noobs2ninjas", "beohoff"];
    var urls = channels.map((x) => "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/" + x);
    var promises = urls.map(function(url) {
//                      ^^^ simpler than forEach+push
        var promise = httpGet(url); // <-- no callback
        return promise.then(JSON.parse);
    });

    Promise.all(promises).then(function(data) {
//                                      ^^^^
        console.log(data);
    });
})