What happens?
I had experience with functional JavaScript. One problem that I have is none of the array method supports to get async function as a parameter. Example:
array2 = array1.map(item => await doSomething(item))
What the problem?
But I can not able to write await keyword in the non-asynchrony function or if I make function inside Array.prototype.map() asynchrony it returns a promise and my array filled the promises not values. I did not find any possible solution to how I can solve this problem in a functional style and finally rewrite it into a loop.
Why it important?
In my perfect world, programmers are able to generate asynchrony array/objects and get real results instead of promises.
What I suggest?
I am not sure how it should work but I have an idea. Array can have a duplication of existing functions that will be retunded value from resolved promises:
array2 = array1.asyncMap(async (item) => doSomething(item))
Or add support to 'then' block in arrow functions that returns a promise:
array2 = array1.map(item => doSomething(item).then(result => result.value)