promise-abortable

Concept

abort != reject

Features

• Abort in promise
• Abort in promise chain
• Abort for nesting promise
• Return promise after abort

Use Cases

• Cancel request when component hide, unmount or destory
• Cancel long-running async operation
• Return promise with abort for common request function

Browser Support

Any browser that supports Promise.

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• Use Babel for lower versions
• Or include script iife.es3.js below
• But I think bluebird 3 is a better choice

Install

$ npm install promise-abortable

import AbortablePromise from "promise-abortable";

// For Node 6+
const AbortablePromise = require("promise-abortable");

// For Node 4-
var AbortablePromise = require("promise-abortable/dist/cjs.es5.js");

The IIFE build is also available on unpkg:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/promise-abortable/dist/iife.es5.js"></script> <!-- 1KB, recommend -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/promise-abortable/dist/iife.es6.js"></script> <!-- 1KB -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/promise-abortable/dist/iife.es3.js"></script> <!-- 16KB -->

Usage

// 1. Instantiate
const promise = new AbortablePromise((resolve, reject, signal) => {
  // 2. Set abort handler
  signal.onabort = reason => {
    // 4. Abort won't reject, but you can reject manually
  };
});
// 3. Invoke `signal.onabort(reason)`
promise.abort(reason);

Pseudo code

See full examples here.

Abort in promise

const promise = new AbortablePromise(...);
// or: const promise = AbortablePromise.resolve(...);
// or: const promise = AbortablePromise.reject(...);
// or: const promise = AbortablePromise.all([...]);
// or: const promise = AbortablePromise.race([...]);
promise.abort();

Abort in promise chain

const promise = new AbortablePromise(...).then(...).catch(...);
promise.abort();

Abort for nesting promise

const promise = AbortablePromise.resolve(...).then(value => {
  return new AbortablePromise(...);
});
promise.abort();

Return promise after abort

const promise = new AbortablePromise(...);
promise.abort().then(...).catch(...);

Abort in async/await

const promise = new AbortablePromise(...);
(async () => {
  try { await promise; } catch (error) {...}
})();
promise.abort();