Using promises — Guarantees

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). In the callback-based API, when and how the callback gets called depends on the API implementor. For example, the callback may be called synchronously or asynchronously The above design is strongly discouraged because it leads to the so-called "state of Zalgo". In the context of designing asynchronous APIs, this means a callback is called synchronously in some cases but asynchronously in other cases, creating ambiguity for the caller. For further background, see the article Designing APIs for Asynchrony, where the term was first formally presented. This API design makes side effects hard to analyze On the other hand, promises are a form of inversion of control — the API implementor does not control when the callback gets called. Instead, the job of maintaining the callback queue and deciding when to call the callbacks is delegated to the promise implementation, and both the API user an Attribution: Adapted from MDN Web Docs under CC-BY-SA-2.5. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.