Promise Pipelines in JavaScript By Jesse Hallett • 31st Jul 2012 • 11 min read • Tags: JavaScript, functional programmingUpdated on 30th Jan 2013 Promises, also know as deferreds or futures, are a wonderful abstraction for manipulating asynchronous actions. Dojo has had Deferreds for some time. jQuery introduced its own Deferreds in version 1.5 based on the CommonJS Promises/A specification. I’m g