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This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

	# first:
	lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom \| while read f; do sudo rm /usr/local/${f}; done
	sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*

	# To recap, the best way (I've found) to completely uninstall node + npm is to do the following:

	# go to /usr/local/lib and delete any node and node_modules
	cd /usr/local/lib
	sudo rm -rf node*