Promises offer a very powerful abstraction for obtaining values asynchronously.
As javascript is a async-first language it is important to understand the options you have for handling asynchronicity.

You will learn the ins and outs of promises including error handling, value propagation, synchronous returns, and composition.

By the end of the workshop you will be comfortable using Q to work with promises AND writing your own functions that leverage promises to provide clean abstractions and error handling.

Create a new directory to do your workshop work in. Let's call it "promise-shop". You will need to initialize npm in this repo and then use npm to install "q".

$ mkdir promise-shop && cd promise-shop
$ npm init
$ npm install q
$ npm install -g promise-it-wont-hurt@latest

Note: the workshop is being updated weekly. Please regularly rerun the above command to get the latest set of exercises.

Once the workshop is installed, run promise-it-wont-hurt to print a menu where you can select a problem to work on.

$ promise-it-wont-hurt

Problems are listed in rough order of difficulty. You are advised to complete them in order, as later problems will build on skills developed by solving previous problems.

Once you have selected a problem, the workshop will remember which problem you are working on. Using your preferred editor, simply create a file to write your solution in.

Use the workshop's run command to point the workshop at your solution file. Your solution will loaded and passed the problem input. This usually won't perform any validation, it will only show the program output.

$ promise-it-wont-hurt run mysolution.js

Your solution will be verified against the output of the 'official' solution. If all of the output matches, then you have successfully solved the problem!

$ promise-it-wont-hurt verify mysolution.js

Feedback and critisism is welcome, please log your troubles in issues.

This tutorial was built using rvagg's workshopper framework.

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