Adding question about promises about front-end-developer-interview-questions

[darcyclarke]

Ideally, I'd like to remove all of the jQuery-specific questions... currently they don't really add any value and any future questions should probably be library agnostic (see #230 for more info). That said, a question about promises on their own is very valuable.

[phanan]

+1 for removing jQuery questions. If we have jQuery, why don't we have underscore? If we add underscore, why is lodash missing? The list will go on forever.
This repository shouldn't be catered for any specific libraries or frameworks, however popular they are.

EDIT: Didn't realize that jQuery section was in fact gone...

[appleboy]

+1 for removing jQuery question. The same reason with @phanan

[omer-demir]

+1 for improvement.

[phanan]

Shouldn't we close this question now that jQuery has been removed? Calling for @darcyclarke and @appleboy.

[arthurvr]

No, I don't think so. Promises aren't jQuery specific.

[phanan]

Right, how about a generic

What is a promise and how does it work?

or

What JavaScript problems is promised targeted to solve?

or, a bit more specific:

What's the difference between a promise and callbacks? Which do you prefer, and why?

(Disclaimer: I'm in no way a JS expert).

[jvalle]

What about an ES6/Harmony series of questions, that could include promises?

[richgilbank]

I don't think a set of ES* questions is worthwhile just yet, keeping in mind the original objective of this project is job interview questions. I doubt there are many places out there that expect significant ES6 expertise a requirement. That said, Promises as a concept - that is, jQuery's Deferreds, ES6 Promises and polyfills, are worthwhile and usable today. If someone wants to draft up a question along the lines of the following, I'd be happy to look it over:
What is the extent of your experience with Promises and/or their polyfills?

[darcyclarke]

Apologize for the delay, I admit I'm playing a bit of catch up on this discussion. I'm happy to see we all agreed to reject library-specific API implementations. I promise we'll be better off in the long run for doing that. I'm also always glad to see that we're (as a community) not in a race to add more questions just for the sake of it; Vetting ideas/topics first and then formulating questions around those is the ideal workflow.

That said, to resolve this pending issue I'm in favour of settling on @richgilbank's proposal. It fullfills the primary criteria of an overarching question on Promises.

If no one else has suggestions or editions to that then someone should make a PR with Rich's suggestion.

[richgilbank]

@darcyclarke Awful. Just awful. 😝
PR added.

[darcyclarke]

Resolved via 0313287 😏 mmmm puns

[phanan]

Chit-chat (I know the issue is closed): I was reading @darcyclarke's comment from Gmail and asking myself "What the heck with these monospace stuff?" And then I was like "Whoa... Just... Whoa..."

[masterE]

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On February 18, 2015, at 7:44 PM, Phan An [email protected] wrote:

Chit-chat (I know the issue is closed): I was reading @darcyclarke's comment from Gmail and asking myself "What the heck with these monospace stuff?" And then I was like "Whoa... Just... Whoa..."

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[arthurvr]

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