Promises in ES6

With ES6 functions, we can further simplify the code with fat arrow => and useconstandlet.

/* ES6 */
const isMomHappy = true;

// Promise
const willIGetNewPhone = new Promise(
    (resolve, reject) => { // fat arrow
        if (isMomHappy) {
            const phone = {
                brand: 'Samsung',
                color: 'black'
            };
            resolve(phone);
        } else {
            const reason = new Error('mom is not happy');
            reject(reason);
        }

    }
);

const showOff = function (phone) {
    const message = 'Hey friend, I have a new ' +
                phone.color + ' ' + phone.brand + ' phone';
    return Promise.resolve(message);
};

// call our promise
const askMom = function () {
    willIGetNewPhone
        .then(showOff)
        .then(fulfilled => console.log(fulfilled)) // fat arrow
        .catch(error => console.log(error.message)); // fat arrow
};

askMom();

Promises in ES7

ES7 introduce asyncand await syntax. It makes the asynchronous syntax look prettier and easier to understand, without the .then and .catch.

/* ES7 */
const isMomHappy = true;

// Promise
const willIGetNewPhone = new Promise(
    (resolve, reject) => {
        if (isMomHappy) {
            const phone = {
                brand: 'Samsung',
                color: 'black'
            };
            resolve(phone);
        } else {
            const reason = new Error('mom is not happy');
            reject(reason);
        }

    }
);

// 2nd promise
async function showOff(phone) {
    return new Promise(
        (resolve, reject) => {
            var message = 'Hey friend, I have a new ' +
                phone.color + ' ' + phone.brand + ' phone';

            resolve(message);
        }
    );
};

// call our promise
async function askMom() {
    try {
        console.log('before asking Mom');

        let phone = await willIGetNewPhone;
        let message = await showOff(phone);

        console.log(message);
        console.log('after asking mom');
    }
    catch (error) {
        console.log(error.message);
    }
}

(async () => {
    await askMom();
})();

1. Whenever you need to return a promise in a function, you prependasyncto that function. E.g. async function showOff(phone)
2. Whenever you need to call a promise, you prepend with await. E.g. let phone = await willIGetNewPhone; andlet message = await showOff(phone);.
3. Use try { ... } catch(error) { ... } to catch promise error, the rejected promise.