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JavaScript

Posted by Bas Kuunk
Bas Kuunk
21,308 Points

How can a Promise be an object when JS classes are just syntactic sugar?

JavaScript has no real classes, but MDN refer to promises as objects. Did I miss something?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise/resolve "The Promise.resolve() method returns a Promise object"

1 Answer

kevin curtis
kevin curtis
15,287 Points

Everything in JavaScript is an object! Here's really quick read on it: https://gomakethings.com/everything-is-an-object-in-javascript/

Bas Kuunk
Bas Kuunk
21,308 Points

Thank you. I was confused about the way objects can be created with the 'class' keyword. Need to experiment and read more so the 'quarters fall into place' (as we say in Holland).