I've been writing a fair amount of AngularjS code recently and have been dealing with this issue. Angular has a $q service [1] for deferred actions, which is a

I've been writing a fair amount of AngularjS code recently and have been dealing with this issue. Angular has a $q service [1] for deferred actions, which is a cutdown version of the Q library [2]. I like it a lot. The nice thing about Angular is that the use of promises is pervasive (eg the $http service) and Angular understands them so: $scope.projects = $http.get('/projects'); and a template of: <ul> <li ng-repeat="project in projects"> {{ project }} </li> </ul> where $http.get() returns a promise just works. [1]: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$q http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$q [2]: https://github.com/kriskowal/q https://github.com/kriskowal/q