What’s the best package for using promises? https://atmospherejs.com/deanius/promise with 26 stars? https://atmospherejs.com/okgrow/promise with 13 stars? https://atmospherejs.com/meteor/promise from MDG with 9 stars? No 3 is the official package but it seems to be missing a lot of functionali…

The okgrow version seems to be deprecated in favor of the deanius:promise package. See https://github.com/okgrow/meteor-promise/issues/6 I have not been able to make the deanius:promise package work. I have filed an issue at the github page, https://github.com/deanius/meteor-promise/issues/20 f…

does ES6 not work w/o React installed? I’d just use ES6

[image] franky: does ES6 not work w/o React installed? I’d just use ES6 Sorry - I don’t think that I explained the problem well. I know about ES6 promises, but I don’t (yet) see how it fits the context of my situation. I have an application with server-side methods that use a library that re…

[image] richbhanover: I have an application with server-side methods that use a library that returns promises. My client-side code wants to call the server code with something like Meteor.call(), but it needs to be able to handle the promise that’s returned… You can just use the basic promise…

Thanks for this response, but I’m confused about what I get in the function(err, res) {...} callback. I have console.log(`Promise completed - "${err}" "${res}"`); within that callback, and get this: Promise completed - "undefined" "function () { return Promise.asyncApply( fn, this, arguments, …

[image] richbhanover: The okgrow version seems to be deprecated in favor of the deanius:promise package. That’s strange, as deanius stated that he works for okgrow: [image] Can I return an async value (a Promise) from a Meteor helper? Hi @dcworldwide ! …

Yes but… okgrow just updated their page to say that deanius should be used. https://github.com/okgrow/meteor-promise The issue that I raised on deanius has not yet had a response. https://github.com/deanius/meteor-promise/issues/20 The MDG meteor package has no documentation beyond a recommendatio…

No answers yet on this topic, but there’s a very thoughtful conversation on the topic at: Start using async/await instead of promises and callbacks

Dean here- the deanius version is the latest, and is looking for a maintainer. I’m still interested in the discussions about the future of async in Meteor, but would love to empower someone else to write code and handle questions/issues as they arise.

Which is the best promise package right now?

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tab00 January 28, 2016, 2:38am 7

That’s strange, as deanius stated that he works for okgrow:

Start using async/await instead of promises and callbacks