[jquery] jQuery, simple polling example

From ES6,

var co = require('co');
var $ = require('jQuery');

// because jquery doesn't support Promises/A+ spec
function ajax(opts) {
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    $.extend(opts, {
      success: resolve,
      error: reject
    });
    $.ajax(opts);
  }
}

var poll = function() {
  co(function *() {
    return yield ajax({
      url: '/my-api',
      type: 'json',
      method: 'post'
    });
  }).then(function(response) {
    console.log(response);
  }).catch(function(err) {
    console.log(err);
  });
};

setInterval(poll, 5000);
  • Doesn't use recursion (function stack is not affected).
  • Doesn't suffer where setTimeout-recursion needs to be tail-call optimized.