Hey,

Just out of curiosity: why do you prefer promises to callbacks?

- Alex

On Thursday, March 7, 2013 7:16:29 PM UTC+2, Michael Jackson wrote:
>
> :D Thanks David.
>
> I've been programming almost exclusively in promises these past few months 
> and it feels pretty good. Plus, I'm a big believer in tiny modules and 
> simple code bases. Helps me grok them a bit easier when they're small.
>
> Also, thanks for your work on node_redis!
>
>
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> Michael Jackson
> @mjackson
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:54 PM, DTrejo <dtr...@cs.brown.edu 
> <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Redis is 300 LOC!? ;)
>>
>> Cheers and good to have some competition to make us node_redis 
>> maintainers get into gear.
>> D
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:23:25 PM UTC-5, Michael Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> then-redis is a small, promise-based Redis client for node.js that I've 
>>> been working on over the past few weeks.  It supports all the features of 
>>> Redis in a simple, user-friendly package. I thought others might enjoy 
>>> using it as well, so I released the source this morning.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/mjijackson/**then-redis<https://github.com/mjijackson/then-redis>
>>>
>>> The two major differences between then-redis and node_redis are:
>>>  
>>> 1. then-redis returns a promise when you issue a command
>>> 2. The entire codebase is very small (~300 LOC), just like Redis
>>>
>>> Other than that the APIs are very similar. If you're using Redis and you 
>>> enjoy promise-style programming please check it out and let me know what 
>>> you think.
>>>
>>> Install it: npm install then-redis
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Jackson
>>> @mjackson
>>>  
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