Naming convention for Promise.

I’m so confused. In general case, we name the function like ‘verb-what’ like getItem, setQuantity, request, etc.

On case of GET functions, we can guess what type or what kind of values will return.

How about the function which return promise witch will return some other values? Or, a just Promise. How should I name that?

For example, there are a promise which will query the user’s name from database, should the promise name be getName ? or getNamePromise?

In first case(getName), other co-worker could misguess that this function will return name synchronously, so he could directly assign the variables value, like this,

const name = getName();
console.log(name) // Promise {[[PromiseStatus]]: "pending"....}

it doesn’t seem good to add ‘Async’ suffix (getNameAsync). adding prefix ‘promise’ ( promiseGetName ) neither.

promiseGettingName gettingName … hmm…

Any good idea for this?

[chardskarth]

I was searching for something like this: A naming convention to let my code readers know instantly that the variable is a promise. How about prepending when?

let fsJetpack = require("fs-jetpack");
let whenCurrentTree = fsJetpack.inspectTreeAsync(contentsPath);

I thought of the word when because of the ff reasons:

• it sounds like then. a promise standard word
• in english terms, it should mean ‘when this happens’

[namse]

Do the verbs, like ‘fetch’ or ‘load’, look like return promise? Because when I use Fetch API, it was ok for name of ‘fetch’ which return promise.

if were, using ‘loadName’ instead ‘getName’ could be a solution, I think.