Debounce function implemented with promises

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I found a better way to implement this with promises:

function debounce(inner, ms = 0) {
  let timer = null;
  let resolves = [];

  return function (...args) {    
    // Run the function after a certain amount of time
    clearTimeout(timer);
    timer = setTimeout(() => {
      // Get the result of the inner function, then apply it to the resolve function of
      // each promise that has been created since the last time the inner function was run
      let result = inner(...args);
      resolves.forEach(r => r(result));
      resolves = [];
    }, ms);

    return new Promise(r => resolves.push(r));
  };
}

I still welcome suggestions, but the new implementation answers my original question about how to implement this function without a dependency on EventEmitter (or something like it).

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