Mastering JavaScript Promises

Promise as a handle for callback

The implementation of promise in Angular.js defines your use of promise as a callback handle. The implementations not only define how to use promise for Angular.js, but also what steps one should take to make the services as "promise-return". This states that you do something asynchronously, and once your said job is completed, you have to trigger the then() service to either conclude your task or to pass it to another then() method: /asynchronous _task.then().then().done().

In simpler form, you can do this to achieve the concept of promise as a handle for call backs:

angular.module('TVSerialApp', []) .controller('GetSerialsCtrl', function($log, $scope, TeleService) { $scope.getserialListing = function(serial) { ...