Dead-Simple Promises, js

Yet another future/promise variant for Javascript.

This one's distinction is very simple semantics, supported by some equational laws, and a pretty fast implementation. The goal is to have promises that can wrap every single async call in an io-heavy node application and still survive the speed hit, together with being relatively no-brainer to use.

Currently, the hit is around 40% for pure in-process workloads and much lower with intermittent callouts. See slake bench.

Documentation

TODO, but the single source file is short and documented.

Like so:

Given a path, return paths and sizes of filesystem objects for the filesystem subtree:

var promise = require('dead-simple-promises'),
    fsp     = promise.owrap(require('fs')),
    util    = require('util');

function fileSizes (path) {
  return fsp.stat(path).then(function (stat) {
    if (stat.isDirectory()) {
      return fsp.readdir(path).then(function (files) {
        for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
          files[i] = fileSizes(path + "/" + files[i]);
        }
        return promise.seq(files).then(function (subtree) {
          return { path: path, stat: stat.size, sub: subtree }
        });
      });
    } else {
      return promise( { path: path, size: stat.size } );
    }
  });
}

fileSizes (wherever)
  .then (function (tree) { console.log ('x', tree); })
  .onError (function (err) { console.log ("error:", err); })

require! { promise: \dead-simple-promises, util }
fsp = promise.owrap require \fs

file-sizes = (path) ->
  {size}: stat <- fsp.stat path .then
  if stat.is-directory!
    files <- fsp.readdir path .then
    files |> map -> file-sizes "#path/#it"
          |> promise.seq |> (.then -> {path, size, sub: it})
  else promise {path, size}

file-sizes wherever .then     (util.inspect >> console.log)
                    .on-error (console.log 'error:', _)