Javascript Async Functions and Promises

Question

Good afternoon in my timezone.

I have been reading about Promises and Async functions, and i come across a page where there is an example with code :

function doubleAfter2Seconds(x) {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve(x * 2);
    }, 2000);
  });
}

async function addAsync(x) {
  const a = await doubleAfter2Seconds(10);
  const b = await doubleAfter2Seconds(20);
  const c = await doubleAfter2Seconds(30);
  return x + a + b + c;
}

var toLog = addAsync(10);
console.log(toLog);

I used the JSFiddle and the Chrome console : The "toLog" variable is a promise object with the promiseValue of 130.

Questions :

Inside the doubleAfter2Seconds function the sum is made inside the "resolve" function, if in the example we never pass the "resolve" function(through the then method in the promise object i think) how can we get the 130 result ?

Best regards Thanks in advance

130 = 10 + (10 * 2) + (20 * 2) + (30 * 2) - do you know where 130 comes from now? hint: x + a + b + c — Jaromanda X
– Jaromanda X, Commented Mar 28, 2018 at 11:01

Quentin · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-28 11:02:17Z

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Inside the doubleAfter2Seconds function the sum is made inside the "resolve" function

No.

The multiplication is performed inside the anonymous (arrow) function that is passed as the argument to Promise.

The result of that expression is immediately passed as the argument to the resolve function.

The resolve function is created by the Promise constructor and passed as the first argument to the (previously mentioned) anonymous function.

(And then that value is returned to a, b, or c via the await keyword.)

answered Mar 28, 2018 at 11:02

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T.J. Crowder · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-28 11:16:55Z

then doesn't directly connect to resolve. resolve is passed to the promise executor function (the function you pass to new Promise) to be used to resolve the promise. then just hooks up handlers for promise resolution, which critically are not directly linked to that resolve function, but to the general operation of promises.

The reason you don't see any callback function in the addAsync function is that it's an async function using await. async/await is syntactic sugar for promise generation and consumption. Roughly speaking, if we remove that syntactic sugar, addAsync looks like this:

function addAsync(x) {
  return doubleAfter2Seconds(10)
    .then(a =>
        doubleAfter2Seconds(20)
            .then(b =>
                doubleAfter2Seconds(30)
                    .then(c => x + a + b + c)
            )
    );
}

or perhaps more readably (or not):

function addAsync(x) {
  return doubleAfter2Seconds(10)
    .then(a => {
        return doubleAfter2Seconds(20)
            .then(b => {
                return doubleAfter2Seconds(30)
                    .then(c => {
                        return x + a + b + c;
                    });
            });
    });
}

As you can see, we call doubleAfter2Seconds, wait for its promise to resolve, and receive that resolution value as a, then do the same and get the resolution as b, then again with c, and finally do the x + a + b + c when we have all the parts. The function returns a promise (then creates a new promise, remember) which is resolved with that sum.

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