Hi, I see that there's typed support for Promise objects but I was wondering if there's a way to asy...

# javascript

[Emmanuel Oga]

Hi, I see that there's typed support for Promise objects but I was wondering if there's a way to async/await promises somehow... perhaps some way to combine with coroutines? Not sure.

[Emmanuel Oga]

ah, there seems to be some extension functions... https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlin.js.-promise/await.html

[Emmanuel Oga]

https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines/org.w3c.dom.-window/as-coroutine-dispatcher.html

[Emmanuel Oga]

couldn't find an example of how to wire everything together yet.

[Emmanuel Oga]

found this article https://play.kotlinlang.org/hands-on/Building%20Web%20Applications%20with%20React%20and%20Kotlin%20JS/08_Using_an_External_REST_API

[Robert Jaros]

you can just convert Promise to Deferred with asDeferred() extension function