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Matt Frisbie
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Matt Frisbie

Matt Frisbie has worked in web development for over a decade. During that time, he's been a startup co-founder, an engineer at a Big Four tech company, and the first engineer at a Y Combinator startup that would eventually become a billion-dollar company. As a Google software engineer, Matt worked on both the AdSense and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) platforms; his code contributions run on most of the planet's web browsing devices. Prior to this, Matt was the first engineer at DoorDash, where he helped lay the foundation for a company that has become the leader in online food delivery. Matt has written two books and recorded two video series for O'Reilly and Packt, speaks at frontend meetups and web casts, and is a level 1 sommelier. He majored in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Matt's Twitter handle is @mattfriz.
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PROMISE FINALLY() DEFINITION

Formerly, there were only inelegant ways of defining behavior that would execute after a promise exits the “pending” state no matter the outcome. Usually, this would take the form of recycling the handler:

let resolveA, rejectB;

function finalHandler() {
 console.log('finished');
}

function resolveHandler(val) {
 console.log('resolved');
 finalHandler();
}

function rejectHandler(err) {
 console.log('rejected');
 finalHandler();
}

new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
 resolveA = resolve;
})
.then(resolveHandler, rejectHandler);

new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
 rejectB = reject;
})
.then(resolveHandler, rejectHandler);
 
resolveA();
rejectB();
// resolved
// finished
// rejected
// finished

With Promise.prototype.finally(), you are able to unify the shared handler. The finally() handler is not passed any arguments and does not know if it is handling a resolved or rejected promise. The preceding example...

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Matt Frisbie

Matt Frisbie has worked in web development for over a decade. During that time, he's been a startup co-founder, an engineer at a Big Four tech company, and the first engineer at a Y Combinator startup that would eventually become a billion-dollar company. As a Google software engineer, Matt worked on both the AdSense and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) platforms; his code contributions run on most of the planet's web browsing devices. Prior to this, Matt was the first engineer at DoorDash, where he helped lay the foundation for a company that has become the leader in online food delivery. Matt has written two books and recorded two video series for O'Reilly and Packt, speaks at frontend meetups and web casts, and is a level 1 sommelier. He majored in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Matt's Twitter handle is @mattfriz.
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