I tried using Angular with Bluebird promises:
HTML:
<body ng-app="HelloApp">
<div ng-controller="HomeController">{{name}} {{also}}</div>
</body>
JS:
// javascript
var app = angular.module('HelloApp', []);
app.controller("HomeController", function ($scope) {
var p = Promise.delay(1000).then(function () {
$scope.name = "Bluebird!";
console.log("Here!", $scope.name);
}).then(function () {
$scope.also = "Promises";
});
$scope.name = "$q";
$scope.also = "promises";
});
window.app = app;
[Fiddle]
However, no matter what I tried, it kept staying "$q promises"
and did not update. Except if I added a manual $scope.$apply
which I'd rather avoid.
How do I get Bluebird to work with AngularJS?
(I know it's possible since $q does it)
I'm using Bluebird 2.0 which I got here.
This is possible, and even quite easy!
Well, if we look at how Angular's own promises work, we need to get Bluebird to
$evalAsync
somewhere in order to get the exact same behavior.If we do that, the fact both implementations are Promises/A+ compliant means we can interop between
$q
code and Bluebird code, meaning we can use all of Bluebird's features in Angular code freely.Bluebird exposes this functionality, with its
Promise.setScheduler
functionality:Now all we have to do is add a:
line after the
var app = ...
line, and everything will work as expected. For bonus points, put Bluebird in a service so you can inject it rather than use it on the global namespace.Here is a [Fiddle] illustrating this behavior.
Note that besides all the features Bluebird has over
$q
, one of the more important ones is that Bluebird will not run$exceptionHandler
, but instead will automatically track unhandled rejections, so you canthrow
freely with Bluebird promises and Bluebird will figure them out. Moreover callingPromise.longStackTraces()
can help with debugging a lot.Library Angular bluebird promises replaces
$q
service withbluebird
.$http
also run through bluebird