elegant-async-code

Example code for my "Elegant async code with ES2015 Promises" talk

Introduction

This is an extremely fake email client app, written in React (with JSX), to demonstrate elegant async code with ES2015 Promises, a talk I'm giving at MK.js on 23 Feb 2016.

Usage

From a clean checkout, get the app into your browser in one line:

npm install && npm start

At this point, if you want to start tinkering, open another terminal and type:

npm install -g gulp-cli
gulp watch

Browser support

At time of writing, this is only going to work in Firefox, Chrome and Opera, since it uses both Promise and fetch() natively.

Further reading

If the talk piqued your interest, try these:

• Promises/A+ - open standard for Promises behaviour
• States and Fates - reference of Promise-related terminology
• Embracing Promises in JavaScript - post by Jack Franklin, gave me the idea for this talk
• es6-promise - polyfill for using Promises in older browsers
• That's so fetch! - post by Jake Archibald going into depth about fetch()