using bluebird promises with express to make API calls - api

Question

I'm trying to get different chunks of data from a trello API using bluebird promises library. In my express router I'm using middleware isLoggedIn, and getBoards, which body looks something like:
trello.get("/1/members/me/boards") // resolves with array of board objects
.each((board) => {
// do some async stuff like saving board to db or other api calls, based on retrieved board
.catch(err => console.error('ERR: fetching boards error - ${err.message}'))
})
The question is: I want to redirect (res.redirect('/')) only when all boards were retrieved and saved. How can I do that? Where should I place xres.redirect('/') expression?

Answer 1

I think you need something like:
var Promise = require('bluebird');
var promises = [];
trello.get("/1/members/me/boards") // resolves with array of board objects
.each((board) => {
//
promises.push( /*some promisified async call that return a promise, saving data in db or whatever asynchronous action. The important bit is that this operation must return a Promise. */ );
});
//So now we have an array of promises. The async calls are getting done, but it will take time, so we work with the promises:
Promise.all(promises).catch(console.log).then( function(results){
/*This will fire only when all the promises are fullfiled. results is an array with the result of every async call to trello. */
res.redirect('/'); //now we are safe to redirect, all data is saved
} );
EDIT:
Actually, you can avoid some boilerplate code using map instead of each:
trello.get("/1/members/me/boards") // resolves with array of board objects
.map((board) => {
return somePromisifiedSaveToDbFunction(board);
}).all(promises).catch(console.log).then( function(results){
res.redirect('/');
} );