So far in this chapter, we've seen how to use promises to run single asynchronous tasks. This is helpful but doesn't provide a significant improvement over the callback pattern. The real advantage that promises offer comes when they are composed.
In this recipe, we'll use promises to combine asynchronous functions in series.
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