How to promisify with bluebird

Hey @everyone,

this will be a quick tip / reference. Sometimes I get asked about the syntax to promisify only one function with the bluebird Promise Library. I will show you an example to promisify the readdir method of the fs package:

'use strict'
const fs = require('fs')
const Promise = require('bluebird')

const readdirAsync = Promise.promisify(fs.readdir)

That´s it already. Before your code looked somewhat like this:

fs.readdir(myPath, (err, files) => {
  // Handle the files
})

If you needed to do further asynchronous operations you came into the callback hell (1).

Promisifying it make the syntax clearer and more elegant:

readdirAsync(myPath)
.then(files => {
  // Handle the files
})

You see, now you are in the promise chain, which makes elegant and readable code easier to achieve.
And you don´t have to be extra careful about using Promises and callbacks at the same time.

Yours sincerely,
Frank

(1) // https://blog.syntonic.io/2017/07/07/escaping-callback-hell-util-promisify/