Cancel a vanilla ECMAScript 6 Promise chain

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Is there a method for clearing the .thens of a JavaScript Promise instance?

No. Not in ECMAScript 6 at least. Promises (and their then handlers) are uncancellable by default (unfortunately). There is a bit of discussion on es-discuss (e.g. here) about how to do this in the right way, but whatever approach will win it won’t land in ES6.

The current standpoint is that subclassing will allow to create cancellable promises using your own implementation (not sure how well that’ll work).

Until the language commitee has figured out the best way (ES7 hopefully?) you can still use userland Promise implementations, many of which feature cancellation.

Current discussion is in the https://github.com/domenic/cancelable-promise and https://github.com/bergus/promise-cancellation drafts.

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