@hanshi/promise-typeclass
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A package providing type-class implentations such as monad and traversable to the native type promise.
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import {
warp as warpPromise,
fmap as fmapPromise,
lift as liftPromise
} from '@hanshi/promise-typeclass';
const waitedValue = <T>(v: T, t: number): Promise<T> =>
new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(() => resolve(v), t));
const terminalWithPromise = (a: number): Promise<number> =>
new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(() => resolve(a + 5), 500));
const waited1sNumber10 = warpPromise(waitedValue(5, 500), terminalWithPromise); // For any function that returns a promise, warp(or `>>=` in `haskell) can `partial apply` a promise as if it's normal(awaited), and **return as usual**.
function display<T>(n: T) {
console.log('value', n);
}
fmapPromise(display, waited1sNumber10); // For any function(terminated with a promise or not), `fmap` can apply a promise instead of the normal(awaited), but **returns a Promise of the value as result**.
// The function `display` does not return anything, so technically it now returns a Promise<void>.
// The side effect of promises are also retained by `fmap`. For instance this `display` invocation will wait for 1 second in the scheduler.
const terminalWithPromise2 = (a: number, b: string): Promise<number> =>
new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(() => resolve(b.length + a), 2000));
const waited4sNumber20 = warpPromise(
waitedValue(10, 1000),
warpPromise(waitedValue('abcdefghji', 1000), terminalWithPromise2)
); // Due to the fact that `monad` has associativity, `warp` operation works in a reverse order from `partial application`.
fmapPromise(display, waited4sNumber20); // This `display` invocation will wait for 4 seconds in the scheduler, since all the side effects are retained.
const noneTerminal = (name: string, value: object): string =>
name + JSON.stringify(value);
const liftedNoneTerminal = liftPromise(noneTerminal); // `Lift` takes a function and returns a version of it that all parameters and the return value are promises.
fmapPromise(
display,
liftedNoneTerminal(
waitedValue('waited name', 1500),
waitedValue({ sample: 1 }, 1500)
)
); // This `display` invocation will wait for 3 seconds in the scheduler, since all the side effects are retained.